On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:49:44 +0000
Andrew McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me why the virus names within ClamAV are different
> from ones from other virus vendors?
> 
> For example, W32.Netsky.B (as called by Sophos, McAfee etc.) is
> detected and named Worm.Somefool by ClamAV.

Some commercial vendors respect our names (eg. Worm.SomeFool) as aliases
(info from Christoph Cordes):

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_b.shtml
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32netskyb.html

Best regards,
Tomasz Kojm
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