The bio-virus, by design or nature (which may or may not be same thing), needs a host to reproduce. The cyber-virus, by design and nature needs a host to reproduce.

One is alive and other is given life.

The code of behaviour is similar and parallels are perhaps, too many. Change and challenge. Create and consume.

Both versions being ethically allied, it seems that weak will perish and strong might sustain. The nature of man designed nature of software though, and in terms of time and evolution, it is pre-dated by bio-virus so cycle is therefore, old! So what’s new?

Minor actions within that cycle?

The creators (to date) become victims to their respective design and eventually as before, antibiotics and incarceration become “cure”!

Seamus Dolly is a webmaster and author. His background is in engineering and analogue electronics. His studies include A+, Server+ and iNet+. http://www.CountControl.com

I successfully started Microsoft Word and, then, clicked a couple of things. All of a sudden, I had a box on my screen that I couldn't get rid of. What do I do now? The manual didn't help. I was stuck and too scared to click anything else. I eventually rang a computer help line company I found in Yellow Pages. Chris, guy who answered, said to click Cancel button in box. I felt really stupid. Why didn't I think of that?

Over next 4 weeks, I spent a small fortune ringing Chris (the computer help line company charged by minute) and he started treating me like a long lost friend. I just felt more and more stupid as most of solutions were as simple as clicking Cancel button! I remember thinking, thank goodness, he's only witness to my stupidity!

Eventually I discovered Undo button. What a find! I could now undo any action I had taken. This made me feel heaps better. Then, an amazing thing happened. As I was able to do more and more things, thanks to Chris and Undo button, I started to feel excited by what I was achieving and CONFIDENT. I still made mistakes (plenty), but I didn't feel scared. Nor did I ring Chris. I was CONFIDENT that I could work it out on my own. And I usually did.

I went on to learn many new computer skills and they all featured some Microsoft Word tools and menu commands AND an Undo button! And, guess what, I became so thrilled with Microsoft Word that I went on and created three tutorials for computer novices.