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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2012, Article ID 371792, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/371792 Research Article Dynamics of a Delay-Varying Computer Virus Propagation Model Jianguo Ren,1 Yonghong Xu,2 Yongchang Zhang,1 Yongquan Dong,1 and Guosheng Hao1 1 College of Computer, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China 2 College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China Correspondence should be addressed to Jianguo Ren, rjgrjgrjgrjg@126.com Received 4 June 2012; Accepted 19 July 2012 Academic Editor: Xiaofan Yang Copyright q 2012 Jianguo Ren 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. By considering the varying latency period of computer virus, we propose a novel model for computer virus propagation in network. Under this model, we give the threshold value determining whether or not the virus finally dies out, and study the local stability of the virus- free and virus equilibrium. It is found that the model may undergo a Hopf bifurcation. Next, we use different methods to prove the global asymptotic stability of the equilibria: the virus-free equilibrium by using the direct Lyapunov method and virus equilibrium by using a geometric approach. Finally, some numerical examples are given to support our conclusions. 1. Introduction With the advance of computer software andhardware and communication technologies, the number and sort of computer viruses have increased dramatically, which causes huge losses to the human society. Therefore, establishing reasonable computer-virus-propagation models by considering the