Re: Get your free microsoft secuirty posters

From: [ Doc Jeff ] (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:10:24 -0800

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:50:03 +0100, Jim Watt <jimwatt@aol.no_way>
wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:59:31 -0800, "[ Doc Jeff ]"
><me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>God, doesn't anyone have a dictionary anymore? The plural of virus
>>(which is single) is viruses. It is NOT virii. People who say or use
>>"virii" almost always are trying to sound more intelligent than they
>>are -or- they have been broken down through too many hours of Latin
>>study. <sigh>
>
>I enjoyed studying Latin.

Sicko! I preferred studying the Greek language. All those pretty
symbols...

>Anyway I have a machine in with more malicious software in it than
>you can poke a stick at, as well as XP it will be interesting to see
>how many there are. But along with twoAV programs the user
>installed Kazaa and some spyware and browser toolbars
>there is enough that it no longer runs.

Kazaa users should not be surprised at receiving viruses and other
nasties. You break the rules and you take your chances from doing so.
<shrug>

>The first mention I saw of a computer Virus was in 1987 in a journal
>called 'Computers and Security' entitled 'Computer Viruses' by
>Fred Cohen who starts off saying "This paper defines a major computer
>security problem called a virus"

Yes, I remember reading that.

>It mentions the first virus being created in 1983 - so 30 years on
>we are still stuck with the bloody things.

I have yet to have a computer infected by one. God is watching out for
me.

>
>Virii ite domum

<snicker> 

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