Full Form of Virus

By angsuman, Gaea News Network
Sunday, February 21, 2010

People never cease to amaze me. One of the most searched item in Google now is the  “full form of virus”!

What is the full form of virus?
Truth be told, virus is not an acronym; it is a name. Virus is many things:

In Virology, virus ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts, many are pathogenic (read bad for our health). Common cold, for example, is caused by virus as are many other diseases. For severe cases of viral infections, anti-virals are used for treatment.

Virus is also the tenth studio album that was released on September 2005 by death metal band Hypocrisy.
Virus, a British Band, are taken to be one of the pioneers UK based thrash metal. Their live shows usually ended in massive brawls.

Virus is a computer game designed by David Braben, developed by Frontier Developments, and Published by British Telecom (under the Firebird name). Virus is a port of the 1987 game Zarch, the flagship game of the Acorn Archimedes computer.

“Virus” is a single from Iron Maiden, released in 1996. It is the first single since 1980’s “Women in Uniform” ‘that does not appear on any official Iron Maiden studio album.

Virus (Вируc) is a Russian band composed of Yuri, Andrey and Olga. It was popular in 2001.

Virus is an album by rapper Brotha Lynch Hung, released through “Black Market Records” in November 13 2001

A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and infect another computer, spreading itself by infected medium such as floppy, CD, USB or by email and internet.

Ricardo Amezquita Cardeño (born December 9, 1968) is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name, Virus.

Virus is a KMFDM single preceding the album Naïve. It features the title track “Virus” as well as “More & Faster” from More & Faster.

Virus is a Dark Horse Comics comic book, written by Chuck Pfarrer, drawn by Canadian artist Howard Cobb and published in 1995.

Virus is a Norwegian avant-garde jazz rock band signed to Jester Records.

And finally, who can forget, Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom (Malkovich)?

So now you know most of the known definitions of virus. So for the last time, virus doesn’t have a full form; it isn’t an acronym.

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Discussion

prem
May 3, 2010: 2:09 pm

full form of ATM

February 23, 2010: 1:36 am

well very nice post. you must have put great efforts in collecting these different definitions of virus. very interesting and exclusive information.

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