RIAA virus?

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Not picking on Ms. M. - I just see so much of this mis-naming/identifying of these threats that I finally got fed up....

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I wouldn't view it as picking on.. It's always good to get clarification.

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The payload in the case of the "classic" virus is the generation of new email to all the email addresses it can harvest from the new victim which contain a new copy of itself.

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I'm curious as to what is "classic" since virus have been around for a while and using email as an attack vector/propogation is a relatively new thing ("I Love You" was the first, no? This would place it around 2000 and yet, virus have been around since the 70s (one site I found suggests that Elk Cloner was the first wild virus -- circa 1981).

Perhaps the "neo-classical" virus use email as it's form of propogation?

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Perhaps the "neo-classical" virus use email as it's form of propogation?

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Ok.. I can live with that... It's more a thing that most people today see the email vector as the most prevalent and many don't remember floppy disks.... :D

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It's more a thing that most people today see the email vector as the most prevalent and many don't remember floppy disks....

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I do. I still use them and in fact, still have a 3Com diagnostic disk that has the NATAS MBR virus on it (nasty beastie). ;)

LOL... I never saw you as that old my dear... ;)

Yes, they are still used, and somewhere at home I have a collection of stuff like Stoned etc. but they probably don't work any more.... I just dread to think how many years ago the last Boot sector infector was written and released into the wild.... It's propagation rate would be worse than snail mail... :D

Virus, worm, trojan, whatever. I dont want one on my computer in any case.