i've worked within medicine in my previous life as an ER doc and guess what there is no formal naming standardisation within it, at least not one that there is any sort of agreement over, though people have been trying for centuries to sort something out. some use latin, some use greek, some use anglified terms, others will use their own language's interpretations of disease google helps but the variation between differing nations medical terminology can lead to a total breakdown in communication when one relies on a written record. Also, some of the less obvious jargon is derived from the name of the company (that owns the patent) that makes the device that's used in the treament of the disease. "we threw a quick austin-moore into Mrs McGinty this morning" using inpenetrable, rapidly-geographically-changing terminology is part of the mechanism used to obfuscate the publically available knowledge that is part of the (evil) process of preserving professional autonomy. not a good thing for medics to do but tends to be repeated in other industries as well -three letter acronym anyone? Frank Knobbe <frank@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: full-disclosure-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/08/2004 01:06 To Bernardo Quintero <bernardo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: [Full-Disclosure] (no subject) On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:43, Bernardo Quintero wrote: > BitDefender 7.0/20040809 found [JS.Dword.dropper] > ClamWin devel-20040727/20040809 found [Trojan.JS.RunMe] > eTrustAV-Inoc 4641/20040728 found [JScript/IE.VM.Exploit] > F-Prot 3.15/20040809 found [HTML/ObjData@exp] > Kaspersky 4.0.2.23/20040809 found nothing > McAfee 4383/20040804 found [JS/IllWill] > NOD32v2 1.836/20040809 found [Win32/Bagle.AI] > Norman 5.70.10/20040806 found [W32/Malware] > Panda 7.02.00/20040809 found [Fichero Sospechoso] > Sybari 7.5.1314/20040809 found [JS/IllWill] > Symantec 8.0/20040809 found nothing > TrendMicro 7.000/20040809 found [HTML_BAGLE.AC] Isn't the complete lack of naming standardization in the AV industry simply amazing? Imagine that were the case in science, particular medicine... Makes for a nice game of AV bingo though... -Frank
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