Comments on: The Security Tarot: Trump 1, The Fool http://www.securitycurve.com/wordpress/archives/462?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-security-tarot-trump-1-the-fool Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kurt wismer http://www.securitycurve.com/wordpress/archives/462/comment-page-1#comment-116 kurt wismer Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:25:52 +0000 http://securitycurve.com/wordpress/?p=462#comment-116 what is a web virus is a very good question... their list of top 10 web viruses seems to be a list of various types of trojans - apparently not a self-replicator in the bunch... it's sad when a company focused on malware gets 'virus' so horribly wrong... i suspect that the person who wrote that is one of those people who thinks virus is the umbrella term that malware is supposed to be, which is interesting since the trend more recently has been to abuse the term spyware that way... i guess they must be really isolated... what is a web virus is a very good question… their list of top 10 web viruses seems to be a list of various types of trojans – apparently not a self-replicator in the bunch… it’s sad when a company focused on malware gets ‘virus’ so horribly wrong…

i suspect that the person who wrote that is one of those people who thinks virus is the umbrella term that malware is supposed to be, which is interesting since the trend more recently has been to abuse the term spyware that way… i guess they must be really isolated…

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