On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:47, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > Software gets named over days/weeks. They crank out a new name for an element > every few years. These things need names in *MINUTES* - often while the > various > A/V companies are looking at different copies of a polymorphic, multi-attack > piece of malware. Hey, I didn't say it would be easy, did I? > 5 blind men and an elephant time... and you want them to agree on a name > before > they even agree they're looking at the same thing??? Obviously not at time of research. But these days everyone is keeping an ear on the ground... I mean Internet... while they are doing research. Once one company, which is working on a new strain they term BigNasty, finds out 3 others are discussion this (on the Internet or private AV channels) as the SuckThis virus, then they could adopt that name to avoid confusion. I didn't say it was easy, but they could at least make an effort. Here we are a year later and still call it Bagle or Beagle, either one. I'm still confused if MyDoom-O and MyDoom-M are the same thing or not. BTW: Perhaps the analogy to medicine was misplaced. I just thought in term of diseases. How many different names do we have for ...say... chicken pox or colitis or diabetes? Imagine you had 5 different names for the flu. I could come up with a dozen Monty Python sketches taking place in the doctors office.... I didn't say it was easy, but we should "encourage" the AV industry to work towards such a standardization. It may even be beneficial for them. Sing with me Valdis.... "I say tomato, you say tomato, I say potato, you say potato, I say Beagle, you say Bagle, and others are calling it something else." Regards, Frank (throwing rocks at the glass palace)
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