Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: FromTheRafters
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:09

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"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message 
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> From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>
>
> | "John Slade" <hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> | news:NXi6o.35931$F%7.12219@newsfe10.iad...
>>> On 8/3/2010 2:47 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>>>> Dustin wrote:
>>>>> That's like some electricians I know that call all 9" linemans
>>>>> pliers
>>>>> klein, even tho they aren't. As klein is actually a company name.
>
>>>> Hey, how did you know I am a licensed electrician?
>>>> And yes, it is common in the trade to call them 'kleins', like in,
>>>> 'can I
>>>> borrow your kleins?'
>>>> Buffalo :)
>
>
>
>>>        It's like people calling powdered drink mix from Flavor Aid,
>>> "Kool-Aid". I'm sure we've all heard the expression, "Drinking the
>>> Kool-Aid" when talking about someone who follows something or 
>>> someone
>>> blindly. Well it came from the Jim Jones tragedy in Jonestown, 
>>> Guyana.
>>> They drank poisonded Flavor Aid but most people still call it
>>> Kool-Aid.
>
> | Same sort of thing applies to crescent wrench (Crescent is a brand 
> name
> | of a very popular open end adjustaqble wrench). Crowbar is another,
> | where a wrecking bar is almost always incorrectly called a crowbar.
> | Dykes are a misnomer for the shortening of the tool known as a 
> "diagonal
> | cutter".
>
> | Most people don't care about using correct terminology, and so there 
> is
> | often confusion and shouts of *mere semantics* when someone tries to
> | inform them.
>
>
> Mom always told me not to be anti semantic  :-)

:oD

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From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,alt.comp.anti-virus,microsoft.public.security.virus,ba.internet
Subject: Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:09:54 -0400
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