Sentences with phrase «multiple types of viruses»

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Blended malware is malware that utilizes multiple types of malware technology as part of an attack - for example, combining features of Trojans, worms, and viruses.

Hervé Perron, then a graduate student at Grenoble University in France, dropped his Ph.D. project in 1987 to pursue something more challenging and controversial: He wanted to learn if new ideas about retroviruses — a type of virus that converts RNA into DNA — could be relevant to multiple sclerosis.

Multiple types of rhinovirus C exist and they are part of a larger group of illness - causing viruses, including cold viruses rhinovirus A and B. «We knew it would be different from rhinovirus A and B: It didn't respond to drugs, it used a different receptor, it had different biological properties.

Progress is being made in creating an antiviral drug that could kill multiple viruses, in the same way that antibiotics kill many different types of bacteria.

Most antivirus programs do a decent job of protecting against computer viruses, but can be hit and miss when it comes to the multiple other types of malware, including adware, Trojans, spyware, browser hijackers, worms, rootkits, backdoors, keyloggers and ransomware.