On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:53 -0500, "Bill Arnold" <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan, > > A virus is something that occurs in nature, thus using the word virus for > these things associates it with nature, as in "I caught a virus", which > people are used to and tend to accept. Of course there is NOTHING about > them > that is natural and they aren't "caught" at all, they occur as a result > of > deliberate and destructive actions taken by evil people. But the "nature" > association prevents people (to an important degree, I believe) from > properly associating these actions with the evil people who perpetrate > them, > and consequently taking appropriate action to stop them.
That's a good point - most non-tech people I know would shrug at an attack by a virus or other malware unless it was actively hampering what they were doing. There's nothing natural about viruses in the IT sense apart from the fact that classic computer virus has a lot of similarities with biological viruses in how it infects and propagates. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
