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[citation needed] The lower one's ping is, the lower the latency is and the less lag the player will experience. High ping and low ping are commonly used terms in online gaming, where high ping refers to a ping that causes a severe amount of lag; while any level of ping may cause lag, severe lag is usually indicated by a ping of over 100 ms. [4]
The virus can reactivate and begin producing large amounts of viral progeny (the lytic part of the viral life cycle) without the host becoming reinfected by new outside virus, and stays within the host indefinitely. [2] Virus latency is not to be confused with clinical latency during the incubation period when a virus is not dormant.
A ping of death is a type of attack on a computer system that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. [1] In this attack, a host sends hundreds of ping requests with a packet size that is large or illegal to another host to try to take it offline or to keep it preoccupied responding with ICMP Echo replies. [2]
Like biological viruses, computer viruses also have a knack for spreading like wildfire. However, their modus operandi is to copy their codes copiously into other programs with one malicious goal ...
Benefit #4: Antivirus software saves you from having to manually scan your devices, get rid of any infected files, and then restart your computer. Benefit #5: The software can detect a virus ...
Like biological viruses, computer viruses also have a knack for spreading like wildfire. However, their modus operandi is to copy their codes copiously into other programs with one malicious goal ...
As a result of the virus hooking into the low-level timer interrupt, PC-XT systems slow down to one fifth of their normal speeds 30 minutes after the virus has installed itself, though the slowdown is less noticeable on faster machines. The virus contains code that enters a processing loop each time the processor's timer tick is activated.
The Pikachu virus is believed to be the first computer virus geared at children. Ping-pong: Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A, VeraCruz DOS Boot sector virus 1988-03 Turin: Harmless to most computers RavMonE.exe: RJump.A, Rajump, Jisx Worm 2006-06-20 Once distributed in Apple iPods, but a Windows-only virus SCA: Amiga Boot ...