It turns out there are a lot of similarities between the way spammers evolve their approaches to avoid filters and the way the HIV virus is constantly mutating,” according to the post on Microsoft Research’s blog.
In fact, the Microsoft Researchers, using PhyloD with the aid of that company’s high performance computing center, were able to process a year’s worth of data in a matter of days, resulting in the discovery of six times as many possible attack points on the HIV virus has had previously been identified.
