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hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:


>
> While computer viruses fit some of the characteristics of biological viruses,
> I wish the word _sabotage_ had been adopted instead.  "Virus" makes it sound
> like the PC was infected by a random act of nature--as we catch a cold--as
> opposed to a deliberate malicious attack which a computer virus is.

I should pedantically point out that virus attacks are not random, they
are pre-programmed strategies to spread and multiply. But arguably they
are not malicious, so much as inconsiderate.