The fact that viruses like the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses, as well as the distantly related viruses that cause measles and rabies, are only found in a limited number of species suggests that those viruses are relatively new—after all, those organisms came along somewhat recently in evolutionary time. Many of these "new" viruses likely originated in insects many million years ago and at some point in evolution developed the ability to infect other species—probably as insects interacted with or fed from them.
HIV, which is thought to have first emerged in humans in the s, is another kind of virus, known as a retrovirus. These simple viruses are akin to elements found in normal cells that have the ability to copy and insert themselves throughout the genome.
There are a number of viruses that have a similar way of copying themselves—a process that reverses the normal flow of information in cells, which is where the term "retro" comes from—and their central machinery for replication may be a bridge from the original life-forms on this planet to what we know as life today.
In fact, we carry among our genes many "fossilized" retroviruses—left over from the infection of distant ancestors—which can help us trace our evolution as a species. Then there are the viruses whose genomes are so large that scientists can't quite figure out what part of the cell they would have come from. Take, for instance, the largest-ever virus so far discovered, mimivirus: its genome is some 50 times larger than that of HIV and is larger than that of some bacteria. Some of the largest known viruses infect simple organisms such as amoebas and simple marine algae.
This indicates that they may have an ancient origin, possibly as parasitic life-forms that then adapted to the "virus lifestyle. At the end of the day, however, despite all of their common features and unique abilities to copy and spread their genomes, the origins of most viruses may remain forever obscure.
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See the last time a scan was run on your device, how long it took, and how many files were scanned. Start a new quick scan or go into scan options to run a more extensive or custom scan. See threats that have been quarantined before they can affect you and anything identified as a threat that you have allowed to run on your device. Even though Windows Security is turned on and scans your device automatically, you can perform an additional scan whenever you want. Quick scan. Concerned that you may have done something to introduce a suspicious file or virus to your device?
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