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Netsky Worm Variant Attacks P2P Services
ee_moss points out this Washington Post article (via Yahoo!), excerpting "The latest variant of the Netsky worm directing infected computers to launch Web-based attacks against music- and file-trading Web services such as Kazaa, taking down at least one company's Web sites in the process. The worm, the 19th version of a bug that made its debut in February, is also targeting some Web sites that offer computer programs designed to illegally break or bypass copyright controls on software programs."
Well, It was a linux enthousiast, of course, well, because!
The proof is very simple, but there isn't enough room in this post to write it down.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
I think that the entire community must launch an attack against the evil that is Conor Collins, man I hate that fool.
The Conor Collins Troll has begun! Conor primus apud vires est.
For now...
If you're talking about security through obscurity, I don't think we're in any huge danger of Linux becoming as popular as Windows any time soon. Might as well add on another 9999999 dots to the end of that "For now..."
Very clever, five star troll.
My parent is *not* off-topic.
My parent is an excellent example of how these damn worms and viruses spread, except instead of going through all the trouble of instructing the computer to do this, they simply tell the human operator to do it.
But the procedures are identical.
And, to make matters even worse, at least some people have a smidgen of common sense. Computers have none at all.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
sigh... Didn't mean to post AC.
Why do people install virii? And what the hell is a virii?
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Viri is the plural of Vir, "man".
;)
Linux men exist. I don't see the problem with his post.
Virii is the plural form of virius, which isn't a word in Latin or English.
A far as Caesar was concerned, virus didn't have a plural form in Latin. It already has pluraity implied (sort of like people, deer, geese, and sheep); so "a virus" -- singular -- is an Anglicism.
Which means, of course, you're right, viruses is the best English plural form; if we are to pluralize an English word we should use English rules.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Rather than use my mod points, I thought that I would point out one of the biggest arguments...
What is the plural of virus?
A little quote:
It is not viri, or (worse) virii. True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural. Besides, viri is the Latin word for 'men' (plural of vir, "man," the root of English virile). There is in fact no written attestation of a Latin plural of virus.
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