2022/12/07 by Dimitris Kostadimas, Kostadimas, Dimitris, Kalliopi Kastampolidou +3
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Scientific Computing and Data Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.03966
openalex publication_date 2022/12/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Computer viruses exhibit many similarities with biological viruses. Thus, a closer examination of this association might lead to some new perspectives and, even, to new enhanced capabilities that will facilitate the overall effort to tackle and, why not, eradicate them. Game theory has long been considered as a useful tool for modeling viral behavior. In this paper, we establish certain, important we hope, correlations between a well-known virus, namely VirLock, with the bacteriophage φ6. Moreover, following this line of thought, we also suggest efficient and, at the same time, practical strategies that may significantly alleviate the infection problems caused by VirLock and any other virus having similar traits.