Imre Csete said:
Talvrae said:
maconlon439 said:
What I think is an immaterial criticism is the people who complain that the plan that beats the aliens in the movie Independence Day would not have worked since the aliens should have Anti-Virus software. A computer can have the best anti-virus software in the world and still be susceptible to certain viruses if the virus is not listed in the softwares virus definitions. In that case the software could not tell that the virus is a virus instead of a legit program. In the movie, Levinson had access to the alien technology in the form of the craft from Area 51. Therefore, it would not be impossible for him to come up with a virus that the alien computers were susceptible to.
Sure... but here its, more the fact that the langage of the virus would not even be recognised by the alien computers, and would be unable to read it, even less execute it and get infected by it
Maybe that's why it worked, the alien computer infrastructure couldn't deal with the human program language and went FUBAR because of that. Like putting a PS2 DVD into a PC makes it explode.
That doesn't happen though, the virus does only one thing, the one thing it was specifically designed to do; disable all the shields. It doesn't affect the drives systems, power generators, life support, weapons, nothing but the shields. That's oddly specific coding for a guy who can't read alien, nor has ever seen an alien computer, built by a race that is at best several thousand years more advanced than us.
That'd be like me going up to a jet fighter and knowing exactly where the targetting computer is and ripping it out without breaking any other systems.
