Disabling Bad Filename / Virus Notifications

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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Michele Neylon:: Blacknight.ie wrote:

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>The plural of virus is viruses.
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It's not viri (which is plural for man) or virii, *that* we can agree 
with. Virus is a mass noun, like "vulgus" (the crowd), which doesn't 
appear to have a proper plural. In English it's customary to use 
"viruses", but only out of convention. I usually avoid the discussion by 
avoiding the use of the plural using grammatical sleight-of-hand, 
replacing phrases such as "messages with viruses" with "virus-infected 
messages" and so on.

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