Paging the Macisti....Viruses?

According to
http://www.redherring.com/Article.a...ector=Industries&subsector=SecurityAndDefense

(sorry about the long link)

It appears the MAC is being targeted by the virii producers now.

Is *anything* safe ?

 

R obbo said...

My 500 quid bet that you'll never be clever. Safe as houses.

 

About fucking time too.
Next, a Linux strain please.
*No*one is innocent.. ****'em all. Bar none.

JB


(Stella.....mmmm.....Stella.....)

 

Naaaa.. at least it's on a service you can turn off, not like something
like windows RPC.

I thought it was a script you have to put the admin password in to run.
Or was that another thing as well as this Bluetooth thingy?

 

It is here. For one I already have a latest definitions, then I hardly
ever use iChat anyway, and I wouldn't open an attachment either (but
then I didn't even know this was possible using Chat!)

TBH, if anybody downloads a file using iChat, then saves it, and
decompresses the ZIP, and *then* runs the file, they deserve to get
their drive wiped.

 

Ah, it is that one... yes.

This sort of thing happened to Linux a while back, and everyone said,
ohhh ahhh.. look a virus!

 

[Snipped Text]

And of course with the low market share that Mac OS has, it won't take
long for *everybody* to know about it, eradication sorted! ;-)

 

By eradication, you mean teaching users not to download, extract, run
scripts and type their admin password in?

 

Yes, effectively as good anyway.

 

You'd win,
As I would betting £1000 on you never being tall.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, R obbo belched forth and ejected the following:

Yes, the chance of you spelling viruses properly.

 

If I see you, I will have to kill you.

--

Paul.
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I was speaking in the plural
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus

You fucking ignorant north London pie delivering wanker

 

Whoooooooooooooooooosh

 

Don't be silly, everybody knows it's "vira" or "virums".

 

R obbo wrote:

WC is correct, viruses is the plural of virus in the Ani-Virus world.

 

I fort it wuz virices.
--
Dave
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In saying something like "Viruses are nasty things" I agree.
In saying "I have some viruses!" I agree.
But from the original article I was describing several virus attacks so
therefore Virii were being described in the plural.
something you would see if you actually read the article.

 

I think you'll find Ovenpaa works in the anti virus industry as did Mr
C so you'd probably expect them to know how they describe something.

Never mind though, you carry on digging that hole but as soon as it's
deep enough make an effort to fill it in with you at the bottom.

 

Go to any virus related newsgroup (biological or computer) and ask how
one pluralises the word virus. Or alternatively, to avoid being flamed
to death, just google "virus plural".

It's accepted in the anti-virus world that the only people who insist on
using "virii" are the stupid little twats that write and distribute the
fucking things (viruses that is).

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
Buy this house: http://personales.ya.com/wibbleypants/main.htm
This will be ready soon:
http://personales.ya.com/wibbleypants/bb_in_andalucia_spain.htm