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The plural is virus is viruses, or "virus" if you insist on its Latin form. It's a Latin word, but it only occurs in Latin as a singular collective noun:

https://jdebp.eu/FGA/plural-of-virus.html

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True, but everyone used "virii" on downloadable sections of hacker BBSes from the 80s/90s. It's a hard habit to break.

And if you don't break it, then eventually Websters will add it to the dictionary and you'll have been right the whole time.

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