Did anyone see that article about how one the latest MyDooms wasn't a MyDoom at all, but they wanted to keep the name to avoid confusion. =)
Can't find the article, plus it is lunch time. Listen all AV companines name MyDoom, MyDoom, how hard would it be to get the variant name to be somewhat equal. Is the letter in front of the back? Is there a W32 in the name? Do have mass mailers have @MM...umm nope? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Knobbe Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] (no subject) On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Software gets named over days/weeks. They crank out a new name for an element > every few years. These things need names in *MINUTES* - often while the various > A/V companies are looking at different copies of a polymorphic, multi-attack > piece of malware. Hey, I didn't say it would be easy, did I? > 5 blind men and an elephant time... and you want them to agree on a name before > they even agree they're looking at the same thing??? Obviously not at time of research. But these days everyone is keeping an ear on the ground... I mean Internet... while they are doing research. Once one company, which is working on a new strain they term BigNasty, finds out 3 others are discussion this (on the Internet or private AV channels) as the SuckThis virus, then they could adopt that name to avoid confusion. I didn't say it was easy, but they could at least make an effort. Here we are a year later and still call it Bagle or Beagle, either one. I'm still confused if MyDoom-O and MyDoom-M are the same thing or not. BTW: Perhaps the analogy to medicine was misplaced. I just thought in term of diseases. How many different names do we have for ...say... chicken pox or colitis or diabetes? Imagine you had 5 different names for the flu. I could come up with a dozen Monty Python sketches taking place in the doctors office.... I didn't say it was easy, but we should "encourage" the AV industry to work towards such a standardization. It may even be beneficial for them. Sing with me Valdis.... "I say tomato, you say tomato, I say potato, you say potato, I say Beagle, you say Bagle, and others are calling it something else." Regards, Frank (throwing rocks at the glass palace) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
