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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by samstave on Thursday October 17, 2013 @06:50PM (#6568702)
>Google Chrome Updater certainly does have a few virus like characteristics.

You could say it's in its DNA

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by WiseWeasel on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:56PM (#6569167)
Wouldn't it have to be in its RNA?

/ducks

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by mbreese on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:41PM (#6569284)
There are both DNA and RNA viruses.
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by WiseWeasel on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:30AM (#6569781)
G(uanine), C(ytosine) and U(racil) are RNA nucleotides, so it seemed more appropriate somehow...
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by mbreese on Saturday October 19, 2013 @12:26AM (#6575334)
I missed the fact that you were referring to "GCU". That was a little too subtle for my simple mind. :)
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by _-_-_- on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:01PM (#6569529)
And retroviruses- an RNA virus that reverse transcribes itself into a DNA provirus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcribing_virus
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