On Thursday 08 January 2004 3:26 pm, Steven King wrote:
> Hello
>
> There are places on the web where virus information
> can be obtained. For example, Google came up with
> http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/wild.html. No doubt
> htere are others.
True, there are plenty of such resources around; the difficulty is that not
all anti-virus vendors agree on the name of each virus - there are commonly
two or three quite different names for a single virus, together with minor
variations such as W32/, .Worm, @MM, etc used as prefixes and suffixes.
It would clearly be a fair amount of work to create a ClamAV directory of
viruses and their characteristics (and I can't see that this is purposeful
given the quantity of information already out on the Internet telling people
what they need to know), however it would certainly be very useful to have a
cross-reference list of the ClamAV name for a virus, and other A-V vendors'
names for the same thing. This at least would allow people to know what to
look for in an alternative virus encyclopaedia.
Regards,
Antony.
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