Graham Murray wrote: > 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). So if Clamav is > first, other vendors should adopt its name and if some other > vendor is first then Clamav should use the name that vendor gives it.
Viruses are discovered a darned sight more rapidly than celestial objects. Let's not waste the antivirus folks' time by making them jump through hoops over naming protocols. I'd rather priorities were given to protecting us the darned things instead of worrying about what the vendors call them. Phil ---- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
