From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Virii describes the combined set of computer viruses, worms and trojans.
Loosely this category can be thought of as malware, but some viruses and
worms are not malicious, hence they are not malware.
The word "virii" has nothing to do with Latin or the plural of virus. The
plural of virus is viruses.
Tom
| David H. Lipman wrote:
| > From: "Bob H" <
[email protected]>
| >
| >
| > | Hi David,
| > | first of all I was not aware of any anti vrus groups, but know I am,
| > | so thanks for that.
| > | The vendor which named the said viruses (then) was in fact Sophos, and
| > | there were 2 other viruses on his machine as well which I did find
info
| > | on, and again they came up on Sophos's website.
| > | I'll get him to update is av program and see what that does, but I
have
| > | downloaded some Sophos updates and put them on a CDR in case he can't
| > | get rid by updates etc.
| > |
| > | Now then, is it virii or viruses?? I was always given to believe that
| > | anything like that was called or pronounced virii. In fact a search on
| > | google shows virii and viruses as being the same thing.
| > |
| > | So there you go.
| > |
| > | Thanks for your help
| > | --
| > |
| > | Bob H
| > | Leeds UK
| >
| > Bob:
| >
| > Just because you do a search on Google, does not make it correct. If I
did a search on
| > Google for Flat Earth, I would find the Flat Earth Society who believes
that the Earth is
| > indeed ... flat. However, we all know through physics, mathematics and
by direct
| > observation from space that the Earth is indeed round.
| >
| > I have studied computer viruses for over fifteen years. It has been
discussed in
| > alt.comp.virus many times over the decade plus that a.c.v has been
around and the fact is
| > the plural if virus is viruses. I am not a student of Latin but based
upon said discussions
| > the following web sites properly express the case that the case of 'viri
and 'virii' is
| > invalid.
| >
| >
http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html
| >
| >
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/plural-of-virus.html
| >
| > "...the word viri is a Latin word. But it is a completely different and
unrelated one. It is
| > the plural of vir. It means "men". Unless, when you talk of being
infected by viri you
| > really are talking about being infected by men (and not by viruses),
viri is not the correct
| > word to use. "
| >
| > So if you want to be a pseudo intellectual and continue to use faux
termininology of virii,
| > you will look like an idiot to those more knowledgably.
| >
| I did not say that the search on google made it correct, read what I
| said again.
| As you initially pointed out to me that the word is viruses and NOT
| virii, I am not doubting what you say, so don't take it that I am.
| As you are very knowledgable on this subject I am not risking making any
| points with you as I clearly am not so knowlegable. I know what I know
| and if I don't know I will ask.
| Alright, I made an in corrct statement in my initail question, and I
| feel you are lambasting me for it. I only meant it was more than 1 virus.
|
|
|
| --
|
|
| Bob H
| Leeds UK
|
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