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Blackworm Dud Highlights Virus Naming Mess
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com is running a story that looks at the total mess that the anti-virus companies made in naming the latest overhyped virus threat. According to the article, 'Blackworm' or the 'Kama Sutra worm' was the first major test of a new U.S.-government funded initiative to introduce some sanity into the virus-naming business. From the article: 'For most of [the antivirus vendors], this is like Esperanto: You can speak it if you want to, but everyone else is going to carry on babbling in their own native tongue, so it doesn't really matter.'"
They should have just had everyone call it the Sex for Gymnasts virus.
Grammar Lesson: you're is a contraction of "you are"; your means you possess something; yore means days gone by.
Hej! Mi povas paroli esperanto, you insensitive clod!
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
Thank God. Imagine if Kama Sutra hit hardly. That would put microsoft in an aquard position...:)
I think they should just name them DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardA, DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardB, DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardC and so on...
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Virus names need to be more insulting to the creators. Some little script kidde is not going to be very proud to have written the "NeverKissedAGirl" virus.
...to see if they will promise to use only one name & abbreviation next time:
'Latest Overhyped VIrus Threat' or 'LOVIT'
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Assuming you just keep tacking on letters, one day you'll get a virus named DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardNOT
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Better version:
So this guy takes his girlfriend to an engineers' comedy club, but when the act starts, she's confused because the guy on stage is just shouting out numbers and getting laughs from the crowd each time. She asks what's so funny, and her boyfriend explains that they have indexed every joke in the world and assigned each one an ID number, so when he says a number he's telling that joke. This goes on for a while until the end, when the comedian shouts a certain number that really brings the house down, roaring, cheering, standing ovation, the works. The girl asks what was so funny about it. The boyfriend replies, "We've never heard that one before."
I think they should just name them DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardA, DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardB, DontopeneveryfuckingemailyoufuckingretardC and so on...
I see your point, but I don't think long, and hard to pronounce, Finnish words is they way to go.
To you out there who doesn't understand Finnish, the words can roughly be tranlated to (I am a little rusty at this, so excuse any errors):
I am a fricking virus/worm with a laser attached to my head, so don't fricking read this email.
Carbon based humanoid in training.