On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: > But changing the name after the fact would just confuse people more.
I completely disagree. Hardcore Clam users are more likely to understand the reality of the situation and realize that the ClamAV team has to call the viruses SOMETHING. Usually, that's the same name everyone else uses, but sometimes it isn't. There's maybe a small amount of confusion for a couple days, and that's that. But we are constantly being asked by casual (or new) users why ClamAV doesn't pick up Netsky, what the heck "SomeFool" is, etc. Many of those Google hits are "WTF is SomeFool?". A lot of work could be saved by being more user-friendly. Seriously, what have we to gain from using an obscure name? OK, so, we have the moral high ground, but that's not really the focus of the product. Other than some kind of issue with logging things by virus name, are there any sensible reasons to not use the same name everyone else in the computer community is using? Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- 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
