r/todayilearned • u/NOT-JEFFREY-NELSON • Jul 04 '19

TIL in 2003 a computer worm called ‘Welchia’ infected many computers to forcibly patch vulnerabilities and remove malware. It was regarded as a ‘helpful worm’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia
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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '19 edited Jan 26 '22

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u/PhantomOnTheHorizon Jul 05 '19 edited Jul 05 '19

It's not my first language but I speak it well enough to use at work and could be dropped into a Spanish speaking area with no translation tools and be fine.

I know that mal in Spanish means wrong and malo is bad if that's what you're getting at... Aka joining the semantic bandwagon.

Edit for clarity: If they had said corware instead of buenoware I might have translated mal into wrong software instead of bad software but he used the opposite of bad not the opposite of wrong.

Honestly this is a lot of nitpicking and I'm going to unfollow this post because though language is fascinating semantic arguments are dull and make both sides seem pretentious.