Virus names likely a lost cause

Virus names likely a lost cause
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-03-09

In early February, antivirus firms warned customers about a computer virus programmed to delete files on the third of each month, but almost every company called the program by a different name.

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What Mac viruses? 2006-03-10
MAc IT

A proof-of-concept Trojan is a virus? Get real!

The only reason they had a common name was one hack journalist named it andy every other journalist wannabe plagarized the first report....

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Virus names likely a lost cause 2006-03-10
Juha-Matti Laurio

Saying that there is no time to correlate the names is not a real reason. If you have motivation you have some minutes for naming process too.

Another problem is variant names:

When Sophos had name W32/Nyxem-D in use, Kaspersky assigned the name Email-Worm.Win32.Nyxem.e (same as F-Secure's .E vari...

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Virus names likely a lost cause 2006-03-11
Anonymous

Why don't they just use the name that thr virii maked called it.........

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Even IT professionals don't know term CME or CME-24 2006-03-13
Juha-Matti Laurio

One real-life example from Finland: When I visited at the large IT security conference and the speaker asked how many of hundreds of visitors know the term 'CME', only one visitor ;-) knew the answer. When mentioning the name KamaSutra most of visitors raised their hands up. This was exactly one mo...

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Linnaeus 2006-03-14
Roger

"I often wondered what biologists would do if they were discovering hundreds of species every week, and the same new species all over the world at the same time," said Joe Wells...

Biologists of course *do* discover hundreds of new species every week. A total of 1.5 million species have been form...

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Virus names likely a lost cause 2006-03-15
Rob Carlson (2 replies)

"Making the situation worse, attackers' attempts to generate programs that can avoid being recognized by security software means that the number of seemingly discreet attacks is skyrocketing."

Did you mean discrete attacks?

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Re: Virus names likely a lost cause 2006-07-21
Anonymous

i want to know the virus names...

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Re: Virus names likely a lost cause 2008-07-02
Anonymous

cannot get any email. it goes to the other email. forget what it is called....

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