On Apr 13, 2004, at 7:16 PM, jef moskot wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:I've been working on a website to allow users to do exactely that, but due to being overworked and various other issues it has not progressed as fast as I had hoped - still working on it when I have a chance though, so expect something like that in the future.
I think if the website just said "What we call 'SomeFool' others call 'Netsky'," 95% of all questions would be covered.
Personally, I don't understand why this particular name has not been
changed, given the prevalence of this worm. A comprehensive web site
would certainly be a nice feature, but I think it's really overkill while
resources are limited.
Statistics being broken, it would create "transient" viruses that in reality were just renamed, adds to the cruft of multiple names floating around in lists and search engines,....
A central repository of cross-references would probably be the best and most resilient solution. I think this is what the "big boys" do in the corporate AV world...you look up the virus in their knowledge bases and it can list the aliases (although I see the quality of their knowledge bases/encyclopedias seem to be rapidly going downhill in the past couple years...)
------------------------------------------------------- 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
