Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: Steve Fenwick
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:57

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In article <Xns9DC91AB3EABD0HHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247>,
 Dustin <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote:

> John Slade <hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote in
> news:i37va2$e0f$1@news.eternal-september.org: 

> >       I got my start in electronics and have a background in 
> > that too. I took college courses in electronics and am no 
> > stranger to repairing circuit boards. I'm no stranger to 
> > soldering irons. Well that's what we called them. I used to 
> > repair TVs, radios and such years ago.
> 
> Odd. I'm familiar with soldering irons as well as pencils, and we 
> typically use the pencils for detail work that the iron generates too 
> much heat for. Irons aren't good for changing out small transistors, 
> IC's or caps due to the risk of damage, and especially these days with 
> a pile of components nearby the one that has to be replaced; a pencil 
> is the only way to safely do it. Lower wattage, less heat. 
> 

It might be a regionalism, or a Britishism/Americanism. In over 20 years 
I've never used, or heard used, "soldering pencil" in a lab in the U.S., 
although I am familiar with the term. It's always been "soldering iron", 
whether a giant thing to solder heavy cables, or a tool suited to tiny 
ICs and SMT parts. Metcals are generally the best I've seen for small 
devices; they put a high temperature (typically 600 to 700F) into a very 
very small area very quickly (80W output).

Steve

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From: Steve Fenwick <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,alt.comp.anti-virus,microsoft.public.security.virus,ba.internet
Subject: Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:57:56 -0700
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