“Computer viruses” are catch-all term that people use to describe all types of malicious software. Malwarebytes research team fights malware alongside the rest of the Malwarebyte research team, by day working as a doctoral student in Immunobiology at Yale University. The best parallel to this second type of immunity in computer security software is found in newer technologies that utilize machine-learning algorithms to recognize malware based on file-structure. These technologies constantly improve upon themselves, as well as improving upon themselves.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2017/10/our-computers-ourselves-digital-vs-biological-security/