It has been recently revealed that there is a new technique of using spam filters in order to find an effective cure for HIV. It seems that the Antivirus software shall now help in hunting for an effective vaccine for HIV. This would be possible through the use of a new filtering system that would be able to scan spam and help towards finding a cure for HIV at the same time.

As insane as the idea might seem, the idea has been developed by the researchers from KwaZulu-Natal, Boston and South Africa, as well as the research division from Microsoft are going to use this anti-virus software to find out the viruses that cause AIDS. This shall be a novel technique of finding cure to a disease, with the aid of an antivirus.

"We have an adversarial situation going on between spam filters trying to block the spam and the spammers changing and mutating ... And in HIV, we have the immune system fighting the virus and HIV mutating to try to get through", revealed David Heckerman, one of the lead researchers of the project.

It was further revealed that the Microsoft firm is working in close collaboration with the KwaZulu- Natal Research Institute for HIV and Tuberculosis, Ragon Institute of the Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard and the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Center for the Aids Program of Research in South Africa.

It is a matter of time before an adequate cure can be found for the disease, and efforts from world over in the wake are underway. It shall further be interesting to see what the new technology holds for humanity and whether it shall be able to find a cure for the disease.