True that viruses do as depicted in The Matrix Trilogy (I'm an old man), multiply. However, that isn't the distinguishing feature of a virus. Humans multiply too and Agent Smith was right - we're like viruses in that humans too, just like viruses, replicate.

If there's something about a virus that makes it a virus it's its diabolical strategy - it kills the host cell from the inside. If memory serves, it first attaches itself to a cell membrane, injects its payload which works its way to the nucleus and then hijacks the host's cellular mechanism and when enough copies are produced, the cell literally explodes releasing millions of virions that go on to infect and kill other hapless cells.

Watch! See what Neo does :point:



Ask yourself, who is the real virus? Neo/Agent Smith?