Reply to 'comment on "a framework for modelling Trojans and computer virus infection"' by E. Mäkinen

Abstract

Computer viruses are a worrying real-world problem, and a challenge to theoretical modelling. In this issue of the Computer Journal, Erkki Mäkinen proposes universal Turing machines in a critique of an earlier paper, 'A framework for modelling Trojans and computer virus infection' (Thimbleby, H., Anderson, S. O. and Cairns, P. (1998) Comp. J., 41, 444-458). This short paper is a reply by those authors.