While I can and do understand what Eric was saying, I have to agree with Erick.
http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php - Bitdefender http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php - AVG http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/ - Panda http://www.symantec.com/ - Norton http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp - Mcafee http://www.trendmicro.com - Trendmicro http://viruslist.com/eng/ -- Virus List While different, all have 1 thing in common with each other. CVID's (Common Virus Identifiers), granted some list "netsky" as worm-i/netsky, or w32/netsky, but in the end you (the user/administrator) know what was stopped, and thus have the ability to see what's being identified and or do research on what the virus/worm did (the function) Not complaining.. just expressing my 2 cents ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Rostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names > Quoting Erick Perez - Vision Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Question: > > If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky? > > Answer: > If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it not labeled as Worm.SomeFool? > > > Basically that's because the users keep complaning about the virus names > > that cannot be found anywhere else (like the virus databse from TrendMicro). > > If they want to use the name TrendMicro uses, then they should use the > TrendMicro software. > > > Thanks, > > Erick > > -- > Eric Rostetter > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
