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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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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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