Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-13 Thread Simon Hobson
Pancho wrote: Hi - thanks to everyone for the replies. I have seen 2 replies now and it may well be that I have not been clear enough because both are at cross purposes. Then it might help if you alaborated on what you meant. Unfortunately I don't have further time to invest in this topic but I

[clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Pancho
Hi, At http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/faq/faq-misc/ I found this: Why is ClamAV calling the XXX virus with another name? This usually happens when we add a signature before other AV vendors. No well-known name is available at that moment so we

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/12/13 5:22 AM, Pancho wrote: All in all for me there is a fairly compelling argument for going this route so I thought I would put it out there to see what others think. Kind regards Ricki Is there something about real-time day one virus outbreaks and US government involvement that you

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Simon Hobson
Pancho wrote: While I understand the comment, it makes it risky I believe from a security perspective to tell users anything more than file contains virus. I say this because if we find a virus and provide the message file contains virus with name ClamAV proprietary virus name XYZ then

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Pancho
. If not, well such is life. -Original Message- From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Simon Hobson Sent: 12 January 2013 06:32 PM To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name? Pancho

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Joel Esler
- From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Simon Hobson Sent: 12 January 2013 06:32 PM To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name? Pancho wrote: While I understand the comment

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Pancho
[mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Joel Esler Sent: 12 January 2013 11:02 PM To: ClamAV users ML Cc: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name? So what you want is for us to change the millions of Names we have for Trojans to match one of our

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Shawn Webb
2013 06:32 PM To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name? Pancho wrote: While I understand the comment, it makes it risky I believe from a security perspective to tell users anything more than file contains virus. I say

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Pancho
-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Shawn Webb Sent: 12 January 2013 11:37 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name? In addition to having the same sentiments Joel has, I'd like to explain why not displaying the name of the virus does not add any

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Ralf Quint
At 02:02 PM 1/12/2013, Pancho wrote: Again I believe you are talking at cross purposes but regardless I am entirely comfortable if you disagree with the suggestion I made. As I mentioned to Joel, please feel free to throw it away. Wow, you don't like any criticsm, don't you? Seriously,