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Comment 3 for bug 623448

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote : Re: [Bug 623448] [NEW] VM appears to be infected

Tim Cross writes:

> Your point regarding creating concerns for the end user has some validity,
> especially for those using VM under MS Windows. On the other hand, the concept
> of an add-on infecting a program has some history and established meaning. For
> example, there are two functions, vm-ps-print-message-infect-vm and
> vm-rfaddons-infect-vm which use this terminology.

Well, I am not really sure it is an established meaning of "infect".
In normal English, infection doesn't have a neutral meaning and
neither does it have one in programming. I think it was probably more
a case of non-native English speakers not understanding the subtleties
of English words. Either that or it was stemming from an irreverent
subculture. Or both.

I will get rid of the message.