http://www.osnews.com/story/14737/The_Word_Trojan_Anatomy_of_an_Online_Story Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:34:05 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?128649 http://www.osnews.com/thread?128649 The word virus and trojan seems to be used interchangeably by the author, and the story doesn't go anywhere, nor havy any point at the end of it.

His article in summary: someone found a security hole, and people make more of a fuss out of it than necessary.


Big deal. Sun, 28 May 2006 15:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?128750 http://www.osnews.com/thread?128750 I think there's been a lot of confusion lately, the words Virus, Trojan and Malware seem to be getting interchanged quite a lot lately.

For instance the recent Mac vulnerabilities.

I would think, with so much interaction to get these exploits onto your computer, it would be classed as Malware.

But each news site was using Virus, Trojan and Malware.

Think it's just lack of knowledge on the reporting part, either that or someone is getting $$ under the table to escalate something that is really nothing special. Mon, 29 May 2006 03:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finchwizard) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?128890 http://www.osnews.com/thread?128890 Condom manufacturer claims prior use. Mon, 29 May 2006 22:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments