Eric Rostetter at 2004-04-06 15:37 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>But changing the name after the fact would just confuse people
>more.   We can't go merrily along for a week or so until the AV people or
>the media -- and often it is the media who decide -- come up with the most
>popular name, and then rename it.  What would that do to any kind of
>tracking people do?  What would that do to users (last week I got somefool,
>but now I'm getting a new virus netsky?)  It would cause caos.  And much
>more caos than having multiple names for a single virus.

I agree with this completely.  I'd rather do some additional research on 
the 'Net than have my logs all messed up.


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