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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2012, Article ID 260962, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/260962 Research Article An Impulse Model for Computer Viruses Chunming Zhang, Yun Zhao, and Yingjiang Wu School of Information Engineering, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan 523808, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yun Zhao, zyun@ Received 9 May 2012; Accepted 4 June 2012 Academic Editor: Xiaofan Yang Copyright q 2012 Chunming Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Computer virus spread model concerning impulsive control strategy is proposed and analyzed. We prove that there exists a globally attractive infection-free periodic solution when the vaccination rate is larger than θ0 . Moreover, we show that the system is uniformly persistent if the vaccination rate is less than θ1 . Some numerical simulations are finally given to illustrate the main results. 1. Introduction Computer virus is a kind of computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to others. Viruses mainly attack the file system and worms use system vulnerability to search and attack computers. As hardware and software technology develop and computer networks become an essential tool for daily life, the computer virus starts to be a major threat. Consequently, the trial on better understanding of the computer virus propagation dynamics is an important matter for improving the safety and reliability in computer systems and networks. Similar to the biological virus, there are two ways to study this problem: microscopic and macroscopic models. Following a macrosco