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20 Years of Virii

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the vaccination-please dept.

DenOfEarth writes "News.com has an article outlining that it was around twenty years ago that a computer security reasearcher coined the term 'virus', and how the things have been running amok. Interestingly enough, when said researcher applyed for research funding to look into a blanket solution to this possible 'virus' problem, he was turned down."

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  1. Praise Allah! by The+Ayahtrollah · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FP biatches!

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    You're so gay that AIDS got a You test and it came back positive.

  2. Re:Lets get this out of the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let's fix your pedantic 18th century english

    Virii is a word. It is the plural of virus. 'Viruses' is just bad spelling.

  3. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I say virii. I don't do it to feel clever. I do it because that's how I learned it. Maybe I STARTED saying it to feel clever, but now it's just natural. So fuck you.

  4. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well you learned it wrong and should now demonstrate your newfound knowledge and spell it properly. Keep saying it the wrong way and you just look like a moron.