1) Does the ClamAV system use a common naming convention? Where does it come from? By this I mean I think I see other virus detection software using the same names for things - how is this agreed upon?
Usually the team uses the same, or similar, name as the commercial scanner that caught it first but lately Clam has been first to detect new viruses (great!) so they had no names for them and had to make them up. This has happened to SCO.A (MyDoom.A), YoursID (Bagle.B) and SomeFool (Netsky.B). Any confusion is cleared up on this list quickly.
The commercials also uses this way of naming, it's just that they don't bother (know?) about not commercial alternatives so if Clam is first they name it after the first commercial anyway.
2) Is there a Clam source for virus information? I'd like to tie my filter to a status page that would link users to information on what is currently hitting us and what it was capable of... When I search individual names on google I see different databases online listing and describing the virii, but I don't know which are to be considered authoritative...
Someone is working on a web site with cross references between Clams naming and the commercials. That's all that is needed really, since several of them have nice info regarding every virus. I guess they will post here when they have something to share about the web site.
-- /Peter Bonivart
--Unix lovers do it in the Sun
Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14, SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.30, ClamAV 0.67 + GMP 4.1.2
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