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 Computer networks differ in the transmission medium used to carry their signals, the communications protocols to organize network traffic, the network's size, topology, and organizational intent.
-It would be possible to set up a virtual fish tank as described.  The main issue would be to make sure that you don't accidentally let anything escape from the fish tank.  Consider it like a smallpox lab.  Also, some viruses are quite malicious {{Citation needed}} and will prevent a computer from running normally, or at all.  An aquarium of dead computers would not be very interesting to watch.{{Citation needed}}
+It would be possible to set up a virtual fish tank as described.  The main issue would be to make sure that you don't accidentally let anything escape from the fish tank.  Consider it like a smallpox lab.  Also, some viruses are quite malicious{{Citation needed}} and will prevent a computer from running normally, or at all.  An aquarium of dead computers would not be very interesting to watch.{{Citation needed}}
 The first part of the title text refers to the difficulty viruses have in the common doomsday threat of "disabling the internet" as a whole, although {{w|SQL Slammer}} had some brief success. The second part of the title text indicates that Randall believes A) that Linux and Mac OS X are inherently less vulnerable to virus attacks than Windows, and B) that Windows will become less important and disappear, so the virus writers had better get their act together soon.

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 ==Explanation==
-[[Cueball]] shows off his virtual fishtank of virus-infected {{w|Virtual machine|virtual}} Windows machines to [[Megan]]. The machines nominally have {{w|Trojan_horse_(computing)|mail trojans}}, {{w|Warhol worm}}s, all sorts of {{w|polymorphic virus}}es, and explicitly {{w|Blaster (computer worm)|Blaster}} and {{w|w32.welchia}}. Cueball relates to the viruses as though they are fish, and hopes that they are all getting along together nicely. This is because part of {{w|w32.welchia|welchia's}} payload was to remove the {{w|Blaster (computer worm)|Blaster Worm}}, effectively destroying it.
+[[Cueball]] shows off his virtual fishtank of virus-infected {{w|Virtual machine|virtual}} Windows machines to [[Megan]]. The machines nominally have {{w|Trojan_horse_(computing)|mail trojans}}, {{w|Warhol worm}}s, all sorts of {{w|polymorphic virus}}es, and explicitly {{w|Blaster (computer worm)|Blaster}} and {{w|w32.welchia}}. Cueball relates to the viruses as though they are fish, and hopes that they are all getting along together nicely. This is because part of {{w|w32.welchia|welchia's}} payload was to remove the {{w|Blaster (computer worm)|Blaster Worm}} and attempt to download Microsoft security patches, effectively destroying it and preventing further infection from Blaster.
 A computer network or data network is a telecommunications network that allows computers to exchange data. In computer networks, networked computing devices exchange data with each other using a data link. The connections between nodes are established using either cable media or wireless media. The best-known computer network is the Internet.