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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. Is there as secret to getting stuff submitted? by ViolentGreen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I posted this same damn article yestarday...

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  2. Re:Hmm... by bhtooefr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was having problems with Opera - unless I emulated Lynx using my User Mode CSS stylesheet picker. Interestingly, I didn't get modded down for any of that (AFAIK - it was all AC).

  3. Re:Is there a "blanket solution" to viruses? by cfuse · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Turns out amazingly enough, negotiation was what succeeded in the end and not violence.
    1. There is no oil in Northern Ireland
    2. Because of 1, there aren't any war mongering Americans trying to 'free' the populace
    3. Peace (Profit?)

    America has no concept of compromise, it just assumes that it is always right.

  4. Re:not to nitpick by LearnToSpell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only if they're unladen penii.

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  5. Re:not to nitpick by jez9999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, right.

    Like both "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BTopenworld; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)" and "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031126".

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  6. Re:not to nitpick by bludger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Penii?? New spam idea - Not only bigger, but multiple penii

  7. Re:not to nitpick by zhenlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    None of those end in an 'us' sound.

    Linus -> Linii.