Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: John Slade
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:22

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On 8/5/2010 2:42 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Wolf K"<wekirch@sympatico.ca>
>
> | On 05/08/2010 17:23, David H. Lipman wrote:
> | [...]
>>> I'm sorry, just because the "average" person calls all malware a "virus" does not make
>>> it
>>> correct and if you insist on following this train of thought, please do NOT call
>>> yourself
>>> a "professional."
>
>
>
>
> | Yeah, well,context rules. No matter how carefully people use terminology
> | in their professional lives, words will escape into the wild, and then
> | all bets are off.
>
> | It's context that determines a word's meaning. In every-day usage,
> | "anti-virus" has come to mean what "anti-malware" means in a
> | professional context. That's just the way it is. The first rule of
> | communication is "Adapt to your audience."
>
> You can't call all malware a virus just beciuse you use anti virus software.  It doesn't
> work that way and is a miconception and misnomer.
>
> If a majority of people have a misperception of a concept, their majority does not change
> the concept.
>
>

      Actually because a great number of people use a phrase for 
something other than it's initial meaning, a word's meaning can 
change. Much of the English language has been formed this way. 
Look at the word "cool" it means more than just the temperature. 
In fact some things that are really "hot" these days can also be 
"cool".

John

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