a virus?

**Emo** · Feb 17th, 2002, 01:29 AM

I got a weird E-mail long time ago and I havent deleted it because I know it's a virus because there is a file attached to it called JoelGarcia_resume.doc.lnk

now.. I want to download it just to see what is.. (no I'm not gonna run it) I just want to edit it somway so I see what it is exactly...

by the way..in the E-mail itself it says:

Hi! How are you?

This is the file with the information that you ask for

See you later. Thanks

-Emo

**filburt1** · Feb 17th, 2002, 10:23 AM

That is screaming virus.

**filburt1** · Feb 17th, 2002, 10:24 AM

Hmm, good ol' Sircam: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/[email protected]

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Feb 17th, 2002, 10:46 AM

gee that sircam made me RICH. It was very popular in the city i live so i got $15 per hour to take it off (though it really didn't take more than 15 minutes per machine) I also found that if people have one virus they usually have like 10 so that took up the largest amount of time but since the sircam was so high profile if they got that e-mail they phoned me, i came over, found it, killed it, found a few more viruses, killed all of them, then got paid.

**thinktank2** · Feb 17th, 2002, 12:29 PM

Have you ever given a thought about McAfee,Norton being the foundries of most of the virus ?? I believe they employ people to release virus in the wild, just to make themselves rich.

**Wally Pipp** · Feb 17th, 2002, 12:36 PM

Sounds like a bloody good idea to me

**NotLKH** · Feb 17th, 2002, 12:47 PM

Has there ever been a virus that attacks the antivirus programs, altering their dat files so that it registers most of the programs that are on the infected machine as virii? Say, you have MSWord, this virus detects it and alters Norton such that it then believes Word is dangerous and should be deleted?

Just wondering
-Lou

**Sastraxi** · Feb 17th, 2002, 02:11 PM

Or the ultimate scheme of releasing virus with their updates or programs/virus definitions.

By the way, the plural of virus is virus.

**NotLKH** · Feb 17th, 2002, 02:16 PM

Originally posted by Sastraxi
Or the ultimate scheme of releasing virus with their updates or programs/virus definitions.

By the way, the plural of virus is virus.

We're both wrong, but the correct plural just doesn't look correct:

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=virus

**thinktank2** · Feb 17th, 2002, 03:27 PM

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**parksie** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:17 PM

Not looked at that link, but I would guess virii.

**chrisjk** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:19 PM

maybe you should you lazy bum!

The plural of virus is neither viri nor virii, nor even vira nor virora. It is quite simply viruses, irrespective of context.

**parksie** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:21 PM

But it's a Latin word though...

Anyway, radius goes to radii.

**Pix** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:22 PM

lol

**chrisjk** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:23 PM

Originally posted by parksie
But it's a Latin word though...

Anyway, radius goes to radii.

English isn't exactly the model of consistency though is it

**parksie** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:24 PM

Nope, it's a ***** for foreign students to learn. Although at least it doesn't try and give furniture a gender

**Pix** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:26 PM

Originally posted by parksie
Nope, it's a ***** for foreign students to learn. Although at least it doesn't try and give furniture a gender

lol

**NotLKH** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:27 PM

Like I said in my last post, the correct plural as indicated in the link I provided, just doesn't look right.

And it STILL doesn't look right in the link supplied by ThinkTank2!

**chrisjk** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:28 PM

Originally posted by NotLKH
But, What the hey, to each their own!

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:30 PM

that is what i hated most about french. according to them countries have a gender, then you have to add e to the end if they are feminine, s to the end if they are plural. the all those irregulars

enough to make your head explode

**BuggyProgrammer** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:35 PM

is .lnk files shortcuts

Behemoth · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:36 PM

who wrote this...? Its barmy

And although there actually is a viri form for virus, it's the genitive singular[1], not the nominative plural. And we certainly don't grab for genitive singulars for the plurals when we've started out with a nominative. Such hanky panky would certainly get you talked about, and probably your hand slapped as well.

*Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie.

Vocative examples of virus are not particularly common. Apparently the Romans seldom addressed their slime in a personal fashion.

**parksie** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:41 PM

Nominative - subject
Vocative - talking to them
Accusative - talking about them
Genitive - Of them
Dative - To them
Ablative - By, with, or from them

Behemoth · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:48 PM

I didn't mean I didn't understand, i meant the author is mad...And quite funny.

**parksie** · Feb 17th, 2002, 04:51 PM

Oh right, yeah he's totally off someone else's trolley.

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