Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: David H. Lipman
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:12

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From: "Wolf K" <wekirch@sympatico.ca>



| Quite true, but I'm not talking about the concept, I'm talking about
| words. Words refer. What they refer to is governed by context.

| One of the most difficult things for professionals to accept is that
| their professional context is, well, limited. Most people aren't
| professionals, but that doesn't stop them from borrowing professional
| terms. And of course when they borrow, they change the referents of the
| terms. You can scold all you like about misperceptions (and I do
| sympathise, believe me), but the fact is that the terms "anti-virus" and
| "virus" applied to computers have become generalised in common usage.

| Fact is that it happens in all professions. Professionals develop
| special and precise terminology, their work impinges on the rest of us,
| and we borrow their terms. And immediately fudge, fuzz, and often
| thoroughly misunderstand the concepts. Most of the time, it makes no
| practical difference.

| FWIW, my teeth grate when I hear people use "substitute" for "replace",
| or "reticent" for "hesitant", or - well, you get the idea. I hope. ;-)

| Can I stop people form misusing these words. 'Course not.

True, however one must not lose the opportunity to educate.  If you don't, well you have 
given them reason to continue.

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

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From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,alt.comp.anti-virus,microsoft.public.security.virus,ba.internet
Subject: Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:12:57 -0400
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