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From: DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis)
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Subject: 2 remarks
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Date: 29 Jun 89 01:37:00 GMT
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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