DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis) (06/29/89)
1. The English language has certain traditional ways of naming groups of animals, e.g., a goggle of goblins, a school of fish, a pack of wolves, etc. Since both `virus' and `Trojan horse' have some kind of animal overtones, I wonder what other people (preferably English majors) think is a good way to name a group of those beasts. Definitely not `diskful'---a disk is likely to be anything but full after a visitation. A test-tube of viruses? A can of worms? A pack of Trojan horses? `This BBS offers a horde of Trojan Horses for downloading.' Please reply directly to me, and I'll summarize in the newsgroup. 2. Ross Greenberg is alleged to have written in Byte, June '89, page 275: >In the DOS environment, viruses use JMPs or other system files >to ply their trade. I know that Ross knows that JMP is an instruction, not a system file. Moral: check your proofs, or (c)Brain will infect every NOP in your system. Dimitri Vulis Department of Mathematics CUNY GC
steve@apple.com (Steve Savitzk{) (07/18/89)
an infection of viruses (plague is another possibility, perhaps reserved for widespread infections) an ambush of Trojan horses and, of course, a can of worms - -- Steve Savitzky | steve@arc.uucp | apple.com!arc!steve ADVANsoft Research Corp. | (408) 727-3357(w) / 294-6492(h) 4301 Great America Parkway | #include<disclaimer.h> Santa Clara, CA 95054 | May the Source be with you!
trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) (07/19/89)
DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis) writes: >1. The English language has certain traditional ways of naming groups >of animals, e.g., a goggle of goblins, a school of fish, a pack of >wolves, etc. Since both `virus' and `Trojan horse' have some kind of >animal overtones, I wonder what other people (preferably English >majors) think is a good way to name a group of those beasts. 1) A Plague of Viruses. 2) A Herd of Trojan Horses. [Ed. name for "group" of Trojans deleted...] (^;-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-;^) Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc. !uunet!biar!trebor | trebor@biar.UUCP ``I can read your mind - right now, you're thinking I'm full of it...''