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SELF-ASSEMBLY. “Two researchers at the University of Texas Dallas, Vishwath Mohan and Kevin Hamlen, demonstrated a program earlier this month that could help the makers of malware create viruses that assemble themselves out of all the bits and pieces of code in their victim computers.” http://www.zdnet.com/article/frankenstein-may-allow-computer-viruses-to-mutate-evolve/ View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. “Frankenstein may allow computer viruses to mutate, evolve? A new program could bring a day when computer viruses create themselves inside your machine, using little bits of code from your programs.” http://www.zdnet.com/article/frankenstein-may-allow-computer-viruses-to-mutate-evolve/ View in LinkedIn

MORE ADVANCED. “Polymorphism first appeared in a computer virus called 1260 as a method designed to hide the virus from anti-virus software. The anti-virus software at that time used patterns to identify malicious code inside of executables.” https://lnkd.in/d3T75KG View in LinkedIn

2ND TYPE of self-mutating virus: “Metamorphic viruses do not have a decryption routine or a constant virus body, but are able to create new versions that look different by using more complex obfuscation techniques." The most advanced type. https://lnkd.in/dEVUYUW View in LinkedIn

1ST TYPE of self-mutating computer virus: "Polymorphic viruses are capable of changing its encryption key and generating new instances of their decryption routines with simple obfuscation transformations, such as nop-insertion, code transposition and register reassignment.” https://lnkd.in/dEVUYUW View in LinkedIn

FALSE DEFINITIONS. “Computer viruses and genetic engineering are a reality, a tangible demonstration that artificial life is not only the subject for science fiction. However, neither of these are self-sufficient life forms; both computer viruses and genetically engineered life forms require human beings to create them. This does not say that they are not alive - there are many natural organisms that cannot exist without other organisms.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

“FIFTH generation viruses are self-mutating viruses. They infect other systems with modified versions of themselves.” https://lnkd.in/dEVUYUW View in LinkedIn

BEWARE. “One Nobel Laureate said: Well, there’s no way we’re going to see self-replicating nano-technological entities for at least 100 years. And I then replied that: Yes, that’s actually a reasonable estimate of how much work it will take–it’ll take 100 years of progress, at today’s rate of progress, to get self-replicating nanotechnological entities. But the rate of progress is not going to remain at today’s rate, and I’ll be showing you some charts of what’s happening to the rate of “paradigm shifts”; it’s doubling every decade. We will make 100 years of progress, at today’s rate, in 25 years.” http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-human-machine-merger-why-we-will-spend-most-of-our-time-in-virtual-reality-in-the-twenty-first-century View in LinkedIn

SPONTANEOUS MUTATION. “What if, instead, malware were able to change its function or behavior autonomously? What if, in the absence of human intervention, computer viruses resembled biological viruses in their ability to adapt to new defense technologies as soon as they came into effect?” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.2503 View in LinkedIn

LEAPING BOUNDS. “As computers become more prevalent, more complex, and more highly interconnected, we suspect that so will computer viruses. Eventually it is likely that a computer virus will be created with 'a robust capacity to evolve, that will progress far beyond its initial form.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn