On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 02:14:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Note that different tools find different "viruses"Comodo Heur.Packed.Unknown 20160121 DrWeb Trojan.Packed.196 20160121 McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Tool.tc 20160121 Rising PE:Malware.XPACK/RDM!5.1 [F] 20160121 Symantec Trojan.Gen.2 20160121 TrendMicro Possible_Virus 20160121 Meaning they don't know what they're doing.
No, antiviruses always had independent naming schemes and virus classification.
