On Tuesday 06 April 2004 9:48 am, Graham Murray wrote:
> Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Actually, it is usually happen the Clamav recognises the virii before
> > the other AV vendors so no well-known name was available. See the
> > archive for the more detailed answers, this question already answered
> > here.
>
> So maybe, as with celestial objects, there should be agreement that
> the first AV 'vendor' to publish a detection for a virus should be
> given the honour of naming it and the other vendors adopt the same
> name rather than inventing their own (and potentially causing
> confusion).
Celestial objects do not commonly appear and need an agreed name within the
urgent timescale of computer viruses :)
Whilst your proposal makes excellent sense, it assumes:
a) cooperation between the commercial A-V vendors and Open Source developers
(there is often a blockage in one direction here)
b) that it's easy to tell if the virus one person's given a name to is the
same as the virus someone else has just named
c) that the time taken to cooperate over the name is very short compared to
the time to get a signature out under the corresponding name
Basically, it comes down to the fact that the commercial A-V vendors don't
want to share their new virus samples with the Open Source community, so we
have no way of knowing whether the virus we've just named is the same one
that they have.
I think the best we'll ever achieve is a cross-reference database.
Regards,
Antony.
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