# Can you solve the computer virus riddle?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: James Tanton
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/james_tanton_can_you_solve_the_computer_virus_riddle)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Your antivirus squad is up against a code that's hijacked your mainframe. What you've learned from other infected systems, right before they went dark, is that it likes to toy with antivirus agents in a very peculiar way— and you're the agent that's been selected to go up against the malware. Can you figure out which disk that runs your mainframe has been corrupted? James Tanton shows how. \[Directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu\].

## Lectures

1. [Can you solve the computer virus riddle?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/james_tanton_can_you_solve_the_computer_virus_riddle/1ead5097eb41), 6 min (TED's player)