Talk:rogue

If the Old French word is from Old Norse hrokr, then I would expect the synonymous Breton word to be from the same source. On the other hand: Is it sure that the French word is from Old Norse? Or is it from Breton? (French substituted f- for Germanic h- + consonant, though this may be restricted to an earlier phase.) Either way, it would be quite coincidental that the Old French and Breton words should not be related. But who knows... Maybe someone does? Kolmiel (talk) 00:40, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March–July 2017
"Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself." Note this is entered as a noun. Equinox ◑ 20:38, 17 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Most of what I find refers to this type of software as "rogue software" or "rogue anti-spyware" or "rogue spyware". Kiwima (talk) 21:44, 17 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I had a quick look and turned up:
 * * chance that at least half of you reading this will be attacked by a rogue this year.
 * * But, whenever you buy computer antivirus in USA, be careful while downloading it as there are several rogues or fake programs out there.
 * * It merely scanned and detected the infections (several rogues etc.), what I ...
 * * ... run against a rogue pack that I have which installs several rogues at ...
 * seems okay. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 14:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That is, okay as a noun. The def seems to be over-specified, in that I am not sure it absolutely has to be pretending to be anti-spyware. Also, we need an adjective def for this. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 14:06, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:30, 17 July 2017 (UTC)