I wish a great deal of pain and suffering on the bastards who have been clogging my inbox with viruses the past two days nonstop. “Hackers” is too good a word- “butt-munching, inbred pieces of slug shit” is a more accurate term! My computer would be dead by now if it weren’t for Norton Antivirus. Is it just I, or is anyone else being slammed with viruses this week???
Hackers? You can’t be derogatory with “Hackers”. It’s like saying “Those guys that draw graffiti on the walls! ‘Artists’ is too good a word!”.
As for viruses, they’re all derivative of something like three programs designed by someone with talent (but a low concience), and modified and distributed by dumbasses who couldn’t spot a MAC address if they got it for a licence plate.
Myself, I’m torn between being annoyed at the ppl who made them, the people who open them in Outlook, and Microsoft. 
I’ve been getting about ten big@boss.com viruses every day for the past few months.
Oh, bullshit. Whether you like it or not, the general population does not react to the dictates of a small group. It takes a word, or makes one up, and uses it the way the general population wants to. That’s called language, even if you don’t like the result.
Anyway, here’s what Merriam-Webster has to say about the word hacker:
So, going by definition number four, you are wrong.
BTW, here’s what the same source has to say about the word artist:
& graffiti , whilst we’re discussing words that you don’t seem to have a clue as to their meanings in common use:
I haven’t noticed any upswing in viral activity lately.
Is this yet another Outlook-piggybacking, Windows-specific, email-borne virus?
I do check my Trash before emptying it and I haven’t seen a barrage of vbs attachments.
Jesus Monty, fuck you too!
Slap together numbers 1 and 3, and I’m happy with my assertion. I don’t know why you felt you had to explain both “artist” and “graffiti” to me, as I’m well aquanted with the dictionary and colloquial meanings of both.
As you pointed out, a word is used as the general population wishes it to be. I may, of course, want to say that this word is commonly used professionally in different situations, such as “I have to hack something together to handle that case, or the network function will be borked”. Alternatively, “Woe is me! My box got cracked last night since I failed to patch ssh!”.
In fact, by explaining how this word is used by the computing community (from whence, I’m sure you know, it came originally), I might change it’s use by the “general population”, to be the same as when it appeared!
As you’re being pedantic, I shall point out also that the virus writer does not have access to your “computer system”, and thus fails to fall under your dictionary term of “Hacker”. I would perhaps go as far as characterise them as a “script kiddie”, or one who modifies pre-built code in trivial ways with no real knowledge, but that it. So nya.
For the OP, you can see general virus trends here, as well as the interesting McAfee hosted Map which shows infection by location. 
Nice of you to display exactly how stupid you are, Nanoda
Just because you’re in the pit, doesn’t mean you have to be cruel and insulting. 