Is Smith a virus?

Is he transforming into the virus? "I`m unplugged" he said. How can he be unplugged and be a "normal agent"? Also he upgreded himself (he`s coping himself) and he hasent`got an agent`s signal. (All that you can hear in M2). I didn`t heard about a program that reprograms itself...

Oxygenium

after Neo destroyed him he had to go to the source, but his revenge made him go back into the matrix, he is unplugged from the matrix but still a machine, meaning he's not an agents anymore, but still looks like one (he doesnt have the earpiece). after Neo destroyed him he made a certain connection with Neo. and he can copy etc. so he does spread (copy), so you could say he's a virus..and he's not really part of the system anymore, so yeah thats basically a virus :).

So how can he be inside the matrix, when he`s not a program anymore? Even Neo is connecting into the matrix (thru their special program, so he`s also a program). And still - when he was destroyed (so he wasn`t) how can he go into the matrix (when he wasn`t)? A terminated program, cannot re-launch itself... (if the system is not programmed to do so, before it`s terminated)

Oxygenium

well Smith still is a program, just some sort of exile. when he got destroyed protocol told him to just stay out, but something made him come back (as he said in the burly brawl), Neo is just part of that program cuz he gets hacked into the matrix. that doesnt mean Neo is a program aswell.

thats what I think about it.

Okay... don't be surprised if you see an army of Neos against the army of Smiths!

What happens when a virus gets in your computer?
It really tries to take over and I saw the next one a trailer for m3 and there are lots of him. I think he will try and take over the matrix but neo will kill him.


AgentConner

ok when smith says that he is unplugged he is stronger because in m1 when neo dies then comes back alive he goes inside smith and kills him only when neo comes out of smith he leaves some of his powers inside smith and smith becomes stronger or unplugged so that he can make more of him

there is a certain hypocrism in it. Smith tells morpheus that humans are a disease, a cancer, a virus etc. cuz they multiply. while smith now does the same thing, he IS a virus. that kinda shows that Smith is becoming more human, and Neo more machine. thats how its developing I think.

humans don't multiply like smith does lol. he's about the most inhuman character in the movie.

i'm talking philosophycal.

he was right when he said humans were a disease, a virus. but now he's doing that same thing, he's multiplying. its exactly the same (yeah duh humans dont multiply the same, but you DO understand what I mean). I thnk Smith becomes more human by the minute so to speak. he has emotions when Neo doenst even show emotions all the time.

I get what Judge is trying to say. And when Smith says he is unplugged that literally means he is off the agent connection. ( doesn't have the little wire in his hear to communicate with other agents)

And when unplugged you become more human...thats what Judge is saying.

yeah mebbie, not sure about the unpluggin part. but I do know that Smith gets more in touch with his emotions. like in M1, the conversation with Morpheus, he has to be free etc. and got mad etc. he was guided by his emotions, and he can 'feel' a connection with Neo in M2. he's just not acting very machinelike to me anymore.

I have a question for Judge...now this is totally changing the point of the post, but I am from the USA and I noticed you are from Holland. Well, I was wondering, in Holland, don't you speak Dutch and what is Holland like?? You don't wear wooden shoes do you? Send a P/M

smith is LIKE a virus yes. I know this is the matrix and we all like to talk in computer terms, but you really shouldn't. He's not literally a virus.

And when smith talked about viruses to morpheus, he meant the kind that make you sick, the biological kind.

doesnt really matter if its biological or not, the definition of a virus remains the same.

uhh, no it doesn't. one has 'biological' in it's definition, and the other is a program. One is considered a life form, the other is not. One can actually be helpful in some organisms, the other is, by definition, always acting destructively.

Mainly all viruses are desructive and are always wrecking havoc, viruses are viruses.

Originally posted by gsxrneo1
Mainly all viruses are desructive and are always wrecking havoc, viruses are viruses.

idd, thats kinda the definition of a virus, spreading out and consume resources..thats the way it goes biologically, and technically.

What will happen eventually is that because of the difference a mad agent imposes into the structure of the matrix, this time things will turn out differently.

smith himself is not a virus. he's a program which has been infected by neo in a strange way. I suppose what ever changed him could be called a virus, which would then suggest than neo himself is a virus because he infected smith!

Well children, you are partly right that Smith is a virus, and obviously a program. But what makes any of you think that he's not person in real life, or at least based on someone concerning the Matrix...
Being one of the creators, I pretty much know where the story is going, but it is fun seeing you guys come up with some hypothesis.

He's Hugo and he's just Smith now--just like in the Yellow Pages. There's just so damn many of them.

Being one of the creators, I pretty much know where the story is going, but it is fun seeing you guys come up with some hypothesis.

...And my real name is Andy Wachowski, but I won't shout it out, ok?

Random web search:
"A computer virus is a type of computer program that is designed
to hide in the background and replicate itself from one computer
to another by attaching itself to existing programs or parts of the
operating system. Users can unknowingly transmit a virus from
one system to another by copying infected program files from one
machine to another or by using an infected program downloaded
from the Internet. Computer viruses often infect many programs
on the same system or even parts of the operating system in an
attempt to spread themselves as far as possible."
Ball State University Computing Services (http://www.bsu.edu/ucs/article/0,1299,6313~3303~1985,00.html)

Close enough for me. He even copied himself to another system (Bane).

i believe that he is an advanced sort of virus, but one that has a source and one that cannot be easily eliminated. however, all of his abilities are the same as, or stem off of, the abilities he had when he was an agent.