Computer virus vs Corona virus

This Chinese virus reminds me of the earlier days of my career. Like Corona, the computer virus spreads by uncontrolled interaction with infected entities. In pre-Internet era, the medium of transfer was floppy disks. I remember running from desktop to desktop to contain the infection.

We can draw a few parallel between the 2 virus as follows:

1. Infection happens like this:

a. Clean Floppy gets infected if used on infected PC without write-protection jacket (MASK)

b. Clean PC gets infected if infected floppy is inserted 

2. The very first step when an infected PC is found on a network, ISOLATE it from the network

There may be few more commonalities.

Some of you might be able to relate to this, especially ones who has undergone this exercise.

Stay Safe

Thanks,

Bhaskar