Kimmo Kauranen, Erkki Makinen
ACM SIGSAC Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, (Summer 1990), pp.40-43
ISSN 1558-0261
1990
This note discusses the formal model for computer viruses presented by Fred Cohen. We propose some refinements for the model. Especially, we define a computer virus to be a description of a Turing machine capable of writing a description of another Turing machine to the tape of a universal Turing machine.