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How can androids suffer from a virus that spreads by contact

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I'm toying with an idea to have a plague sweep across the galaxy in my story. At first I was thinking to have a plague, something similar to the Black Death, devastate populations across the galaxy. However, I'm intrigued by the idea of some kind of synthetic or artificial plague that doesn't infect organic life, but infects and destroys droids or AI's.

Right now I'm thinking of something that either affects the software (computer virus) or something that affects the hardware (corrosion, rust).

How could androids (AI's too) suffer from some sort of virus that spreads when they come in contact or are infected with it, much like a flu strain that spreads within human populations?

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