On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:16 am, jef moskot wrote:
> I think if the website just said "What we call 'SomeFool' others call
> 'Netsky'," 95% of all questions would be covered.
That seems like a good idea to me.
> Personally, I don't understand why this particular name has not been
> changed, given the prevalence of this worm.
The problem here is that it's only possible to measure "prevalence" once
there's been quite a lot of it under the old name, and that in itself becomes
the very reason why the name cannot easily be changed - people have seen lots
of examples of the original name, logfiles and analysers have started
recording the original name, and end users have got used to the fact that
they're seeing messages saying it's blocked. Change any of those and you
tend to end up causing more problems than you solve.
If the rest of the industry were 100% consistent about their names for viruses
and worms then there would be an argument for ClamAV to fall in line, even
after creating an original signature first, however that is very much not the
case, so until there's any form of consensus, ClamAV's names remain as valid
as any others.
I'm happy for my mail server to be blocking all the instances of
Worm.SomeFool.x - I couldn't care less about NetSky, because I never see it.
Just my 2 units of currency,
Regards,
Antony.
--
In Heaven, the police are British, the chefs are Italian, the beer is Belgian,
the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, the entertainment is
American, and everything is organised by the Swiss.
In Hell, the police are German, the chefs are British, the beer is American,
the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, the entertainment is Belgian,
and everything is organised by the Italians.
Please reply to the list;
please don't CC me.
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