[NTLUG:Discuss] The "virus"

[Kathleen Weaver]

>So to hear this program called a "virus" by the media and others makes the
>hairs stand up on the back of my neck much like when someone refers to a
>3.5" floppy as their "hard disk".  Its obviously not a virus, since it
>doesn't infect a host program and it doesn't copy itself passively.

To make you feel worse, we had an idiot business teacher at the high school where I teach tell her students that 3.5" floppys were called firmers.  She wouldn't believe me until I said, well, go to CompUSA and ask for one and see what happens.  That finally cured her.

This went on for years....

And this is where old typing teacher go and what they do to their students