I have to agree with Todd, the naming convention is now right useless for the normal population and make keeping up with viruses on a corporate level that much harder. AV companies are always trying to beat the other company and this leads to very little information sharing between the companies on new viruses, etc.
Maybe a foundation should be created. This foundation could give a seal of approval to all AV corporations that join in. We are starting to make rules for patch management over at patchmanagment.org. Why couldn't a group work with AV names and the first company that finds and IDs it correctly gets to name it in the foundation. Just a dream, I would guess. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
