Almost everyone with a computer (which is pretty much everyone now anyway) will have most likely encountered a computer virus or some sort of malicious software on their computer. While there is anti-virus and similar software to help prevent these infections or intrusions occuring, computer hackers and virus creators are constantly redesigning the worms and trojans to find a way around the prevantatives.
This is what led researchers to come up with a new form of protection, based on nature itself. The researchers noted that when an ant is under attack or in danger, “swarming intelligence” will kick in and pretty soon an abundance of ants will show up to overwhelm the threat. Using this same logic, the researchers have developed a form of computer security that involves sending out ‘digital ants’ that will crawl computer networks and once they spot a threat they call in for reinforcements until the danger is cleared.