"The Anita personality identifies me as rogue code, tries to delete me," she explains, breathlessly.
Microsoft's products are tempting targets for rogue code because they are widely used and contain many security flaws.
Graham Cluley, a consultant with the online security company Sophos, said a rogue code or worm spread throughout the service "like someone had just thrown petrol on a fire".
PC-cillin 2003 scans incoming e-mail from POP3 servers and Web-based mail sites like Hotmail, America Online's AOL Mail Web portal and Yahoo Mail, and can also block rogue code that malicious Web sites may try to download to a computer.
Security officials also face the problem of counterfeit hardware that may have remotely operated "kill switches" or "back doors" built in to allow manipulation from afar, as well as the problem of software with rogue code meant to cause sudden malfunctions.
Google blamed its data lapse on rogue code and has now vowed to offer privacy training to all its engineers.
Google claims it collected wi-fi data because of rogue code mistakenly included in the software by a lone engineer.
A separate Python harness, executing in an isolated virtual machine to limit damage caused by rogue code, executes whatever tests exist for a particular service and reports their status to the database.
Computer viruses are pieces of rogue computer code.
It tells the tale of Col. Robert Henderson, a United States Army Special Forces officer played by David Strathairn, who undertakes a rogue mission (code name Onyx) in Afghanistan that goes terribly wrong.
It is suggested that to ensure that the system works correctly, a valid vector table and a valid program memory must be available in the system to prevent the processor from executing rogue program code.
