On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:24:42PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:

> For all intention's purposes, there are no Linux virui. Strickly
> speaking this is not true -- there have been virii created for Linux in
> the past, but they are not 'in the wild'.

For those who like a pointless bit of language trivia, Tom Christiansen has
a long rant on why the plural of virus is 'viruses', and most especially, is
not 'virii':

        http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html


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