>>A real viri has to accompany it in order to 'extract' the payload, so what's the point? The viri may as well pack its own payload.
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>Jerry
>Just as an aside here, "viri" is the plural form of "vir" meaning "man" - in Latin "virus" was a word a bit like sheep - it was used unchanged in singular & plural form. These types of words from latin tend to use "-es" to denote the plural, so "viruses" is the correct plural form of "virus". (At least in English English, American English may of course be different - I've had that discussion before).
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>http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
>http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/plural-of-virus.html

Language is a living thing, not stone. That is why neither you nor I speak King James English.
IN software circles, if not medical, Viri is being used extensively around the net to mean the plural of virus.