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Smug Viruses (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Viruses are intra-cellular parasites with both a living and a non-living phase. The particle OP pointed to is just a machine the virus makes to make more viruses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's the zip file, it can't do anything until a system unzips it. The resulting program can be really small and still do a lot, especially if it modifies another program.