Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that Micro$oft had purchased RAV, a Romanian Antivirus Company. Accordingly, M$

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:33, walt wrote: I noticed when downloading the windows demo version of this antivirus software,it was 12.1 meg but the linux version was only 2.9 megs. I installed RAV on my windows partition but am not sure if I need the linux version on my linux computers. Walt

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Frankie
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 3:05 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ? On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Robin Turner
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of virus in English is viruses. The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second declension neuter nouns. If you want the Latin plural, it's viri (NOT virii - that would ony be the

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:52 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of virus in English is viruses. The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second declension neuter nouns. If you want the

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Robin Turner
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:52 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of virus in English is viruses. The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second declension neuter nouns. If

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip It's getting time to start war - if M$ ain't going to play nicely, then there are going to be 100% more virus/trojan/macro attacks - at least that seems to be the trend... /snip No need to start a war, Stephen. The war is on. By

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that Micro$oft had purchased RAV, a Romanian Antivirus Company. Accordingly, M$

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:26 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip a very large chunk of very logical and well-worded information Think about it. /snip I certainly will, LyviM ! Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip It's getting time to start war - if M$ ain't going to play nicely, then there are going to be 100% more virus/trojan/macro attacks - at least that seems to be the trend...

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-13 Thread walt
I noticed when downloading the windows demo version of this antivirus software,it was 12.1 meg but the linux version was only 2.9 megs. I installed RAV on my windows partition but am not sure if I need the linux version on my linux computers. Walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-13 Thread Harv Nelson
Where I used to work, we refered to the Windows/Outlook combo as the VTP ... Virus Transport Protocol. Harv Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that