>>11785009That ATP is not the cell's, it belongs to the virus. The cell essentially is the virus at that point, the viral particle which infected the cell was merely an egg.
That batch file may be malicious. Perhaps it's a sophisticated program designed to take a machine and use it to spread. On disk, it's harmless. Even moving around it poses no threat, until it's executed. Then it immediately sets to work. It injects itself in processes, exploits vulnerabilities to elevate permission, and uses the hardware as its own body. The host will likely still work for a user, but this is purposeful. It wants the user to believe nothing is wrong while it sends itself to other machines.
What is the virus? Is it the program on disk, or the active version in memory? It is truly both.
And so it is with biological viruses. The viral particle is just a file on disk, waiting to run. Once executed (enters a host), it takes control. The host is usually allowed to do some activities as to not draw suspicion, but it is no longer the same. It is now the virus in execution form.
