Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: David H. Lipman
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:51

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From: "John Slade" <hhitman86@pacbell.net>

| 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".

Jargon and coloquial speech is not proper English and is only for very informal 
converstations.  Never on technical discussions.



-- 
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: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:51:17 -0400
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