Slow Moving Computer Virus

by Noel Kelly

Submitted : Fall 2013

Using a chapter we learned in calculus I tied together how the Fibonacci sequence can be used with the spreading of a computer virus. In order to use the Fibonacci sequence I first had to determine how many bytes the virus would infect each cycle. I also had to determine the time period I wanted the virus to run. I determined a 4 hour and 50 minute run time with the virus infecting 1 kilobyte each cycle. I then had to convert 250 gigabytes to kilobytes. Once that was converted I then used the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence and multiplied them by 1024 to get the right number of kilobytes. Therefore I then took those numbers and put them over the max kilobytes and divided. After that I multiplied the number by 100 and got the percent that I needed for each round the virus infected. Altogether it took the virus 42 cycles to completely infect the computer.

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