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SteveB

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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:13:16 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:03:58 -0600, "Steve Barker DLT"
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you'd have to open the attachment. just opening an email can do no harm.

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You are an unmitigated idiot.

Use your credit card at a checkout that has a key logger trojan and
your credit card swipe gets transmitted .... Somewhere. So do all the
passwords entered on the computer to access other areas of the
merchant's network, and pin numbers entered on the card swip machine.

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Many virii

There is no such word in any language. The ENGLISH plural for virus is
viruses.

ARE quite scary. You can totally screw up a system in no
time by opening the wrong e-mail attachment -

Spyware is less scary, but is one of the most common contributors to
identity theft. And it slows your system down.

You are technically correct, It is not ENGLISH. However it is in
common usage,and both are technically incorrect.

Virus in the latin, I believe, is neither singular nor plural as it
denoted something uncountable.

In computer circles both viruses and virii are commonly used, while in
some places virus is used, no matter if singular or plural.

Virii makes you sound more intellectual, though.

Steve