 Wikipedia "can predict virus outbreaks"
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Conundrum
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Sat Nov 15 2014, 12:12PM
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Wonder if it can also predict zeroday flaws and computer viruses based on people searching for particular combinations of symptoms or BSoD messages?
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BigBad
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Perhaps it could help. I noticed that the article stats were odd a year or two back. The article on UDP was being hit incredibly often- that topic should just not be that interesting, it was in the top ten articles or something.
The conclusion I came to was that some widely distributed program was hitting that article for some reason probably to work out whether it was being blocked.
It may well have been a computer worm or virus doing it.
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Conundrum
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Interesting.
I actually predicted a virus based on self writing code using the PC's own files on USENET in 1998 and it took close to a decade before someone actually tried it.
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