Could Humans Be Infected by 'Computer Viruses?'

And I forgot!

There was a Chinese professor who wrote a small work for the Microsoft University, based on one of the statements of the CEO of Intel. He stated that every year the computer in general increased in capacity (about 160% I believe). That increase of capacity meant that when the trend could continue in that paste, the computer would be able to reach the same capacity as a human in 48 years time.

That CEO published that more then 20 years ago. The Chinese professor introduced the term bodynet, as a phase of the computer evolution of the years to come until it reaches the state that it could bypass the human in all levels easily. A virus could do a lot of damage then, much more then it does now. Installing a simple anti-virus software will not work.

There is something what is called 'Bodynet'. It's a name about series of technologies, specialized in developing small devices, meant to be carried by a host, a human for example.

The modern armies today (for years actually) are studying this in the detail. The soldier of the future will carry all kind of devices on his body to support his enhanced role as a ('super') soldier in the battle field.

Many armies have those soldiers already. In modern warfare, you see several soldiers in a platoon with special laptop computers with advanced technologies.

In civil fields, you can see the mobile phone as part of the Bodynet equipment. So is the full grown computer build in your glasses, or the little chip with two terabytes of memory storage, and so is the pacemaker and the telephone and radio integrated in your teeth. You can buy them all in the sop already, so the technological development started many years ago.

All those devices are computers with a CPU of a kind and many of those devices have a form of communications. And that means that they are risking a virus attack if so targeted.

This is a valid concern and at the same time it is also logical that this happens. A weapon is a weapon and there must be something out there to counteract that, not?

And what is a virus? MS Word 2010 is not a virus, but when you misuse it, you can use it as a virus.

Well, if is of course not possible that a computer virus is directly damaging or manipulating the human or host, but indirect influence is quite easy. For example the pacemaker. some of the pacemakers are quite advanced and when a virus will struck, it will directly influence its host, who dies.

Don't underestimate this.

In the case of Dr Mark Gasson research, the implanted chip was communicating with devices which were not part of human body. Human body was only a carrier for the implanted chip.

Pacemakers and other implanted devices establish a form of communication (in the form of electric current) with human body.

 If it is possible  by any means (chip or any device)  to have some form of communication with these implanted devices (pacemaker etc)  then it is also possible that computer virus may have access to these implanted devices leading to influence on the performance of it which may be harmful to human body.

I think it may be possible since in the above case, computer chip was used to be accessed by brain and hack other network. If, by any means, the chip gets affected by virus, most probably the signal transmitter (Brain) may also get affected as in the case of CPU.