RE: Offtopic, but someone might know

From: "Kenny Mann" <Kennymann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:03:31 -0600
Plural for virus is viruses.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii <-- Can't find the word
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virus <-- Lists the plural
about it.
n. pl. vi*rus*es

I'm not trying to one-up you, the department I work in debated about it.
:-)

Kenny Mann

>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Robertson [mailto:robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:21 PM
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>Firstly, your plural of virus is virii...
>
>Don't know if it is of relevance though, but after applying 
>the Blaster patch from Microsoft, and then again with 
>KB824146, I found that workstations would create some *very* 
>strange-looking directories on their own hard drives, as well 
>as any shares that they Write Access to. The directory names 
>were just long string combinations, eg 
>Wekdjh987sevbncxv098kjh, and then sometimes they would 
>actually have the update.exe in them as well.
>
>Anyway, managed to clean most of these up...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Strangways [mailto:strangconst@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: 30 October 2003 04:18 AM
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>Subject: [isalist] Offtopic, but someone might know
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>I am noticing files that seem to appear in various folders 
>they are always named "~" , and with no extension. I have in 
>the past tried to find if they where related to a virus, but I 
>have found no links. I am up to date with Norton Corporate 
>Antivirus and it does not see any viri (is that the correct 
>pluralization ?). OS is win 2000 current SP's and updates.
>
>Any idea's or BTDT's on this problem ?
>
>Thanks to all in advance,
>Mark S
>
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