Re: virus detection
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 05-Feb-2001 Moritz Schulte wrote:
> > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:
> >
> >> there are no known virus for UNIX.
> >
> > Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found
> > some information on Unix virii; I also read that the first systems
> > affected by virii were Unix systems.
> >
>
> not really. But there are plenty of web pages with the info you seek.
>
> However, there is no such word as 'virii'. There is one virus and two viruses.
> The word virus is like the english work fish.
To get _really_ picky: it is from the Latin, is 5th declension, not 2nd (like most
of the "-us" and "-um" words), and while the singular and plural look identical,
in the plural, as I recall (it's been a long time since my last Latin class), the
emphasis is on the second syllable, and it is pronounced more like veeroos. The
plural should have a bar over the "u". Try to portray _that_ in mutt. Viruses
works fine for me, too.
Cam
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