Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

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Sat Apr 29 14:12:11 UTC 2006


At 09:25 AM 4/29/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote:
>Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses 
>is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across.

Actually I was reading up on correct vs. common plurals after a 
little debate around the office.  It would appear the 'ii plural or 
virus is NOT correct.  See:

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g63.html

    -Wayne


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