On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Antony Stone wrote: > There are many examples of the commercial A-V vendors having different > names for the same virus...
That's true, but when that's the case for an extremely prevalent virus, it's usually noted in the media. Using the well-known naming convention is a much simpler and more logical response to the real world. At such time as everyone else in the world becomes wise to ClamAV's superior ways, then it would make sense to just use our own word for whatever threat comes along. But in THIS world, it's easier for just about everyone involved (including all the admins who keep dropping in here asking about Netsky and their users) to take the path of least resistance. > I do not agree with criticising the product because it is better than > its competitors. I'm not criticizing it, I'm just trying to be practical. If a some admin who has never heard of this mailing list or our political crusade to educate the world about worms is looking into ClamAV (some free product he might be suspicious of on principle, but is checking out because the price is right), checks the database to see if it handles one of his biggest problems and it turns out it's not in the database...then we've lost one potential ClamAV user and done a disservice to the open source community. > It cannot be too hard to explain to a clueless user how viruses get > named... It's not too hard to explain to one user, but this situation is repeated over and over, probably many times a day. It's not hard, but it's unnecessary and we don't gain much by making a pointless stand. Users aren't incapable of understanding the process, but being different for no purpose doesn't make any sense. 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
