Zombies vs T Virus 'infecties'

Ok, opinion is pretty split on the movie itself - I myself thought it was a total stinker, but thats not what I want ot discuss.

So, I've noticed a lot of people don't reckon the people infected or mutated with the T-Virus are zombies, thus making the resident evil films not zombie flicks as we know them. Well, I think they are and here is why;

* Defining what a zombie actually is...

Using other films, most notably Mr Romero's work, as the benchmark, I'd say a zombie was a dead thing that becomes re-animated.

Romero never explains what creates the dead to rise up in his films - some strange power brings them back to life, however, when they bite a victim - that bite leads to the victim's death and also causes them to rise up again as a zombie after death.

In the RE games and films, excluding the daft Nemisis creature and the godawful G-Virus creature with the silly eye on its shoulder - both of which are mutations of living people, all of the people infected with the t-virus appear to physically die then re-animate as flesh-eating zombies, to the best of my knowledge.

In the 28Days/Weeks later films, they are definately not zombies as the condition is totally an infection and the subjects are technically still alive in the physical sense of the word.

So, I conclude that the T-Virus infecties are in fact zombies.

Discuss!

Jim