On Tuesday 06 April 2004 3:58 pm, Eric Rostetter wrote:
Quoting Erick Perez - Vision Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Question: > If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky?
Answer: If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it not labeled as Worm.SomeFool?
Do you call people Eskimos or Inuits?
Irrelevant.
> Basically that's because the users keep complaning about the virus names > that cannot be found anywhere else (like the virus databse from > TrendMicro).
If they want to use the name TrendMicro uses, then they should use the TrendMicro software.
No, many people are interested to know more about the viruses which are being detected.
So?
If you do a Google search for "NetSky virus" you get 308,000 results. If you
do a Google search for "SomeFool virus" you get 2,080.
And 2,080 isn't enough? The first of those 2080 suggests netsky == somefool. The second confirms it. So then you can read more about somefool, or redo the search for netsky. Where's the problem?
Therefore knowing the more common name for a virus is useful to people who use
ClamAV.
Yes, it is. But changing the name after the fact would just confuse people more. We can't go merrily along for a week or so until the AV people or the media -- and often it is the media who decide -- come up with the most popular name, and then rename it. What would that do to any kind of tracking people do? What would that do to users (last week I got somefool, but now I'm getting a new virus netsky?) It would cause caos. And much more caos than having multiple names for a single virus.
Regards,
Antony.
-- Eric Rostetter
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