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Message-ID: <411CF40B.6070406@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (Barry Fitzgerald)
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Todd Towles wrote:

>How is naming a virus with @mm or a W32 in the front slow the process
>down? Naming has nothing to do with AV venders making money IMO. If it
>does, McAfee should change its name to Norton before tries to buy it
>out. =) 
>
>  
>

It doesn't have a direct impact -- however, you're not going to get the 
major companies to agree to put resources towards collaboration and 
changing names.  That's a used resource which cuts into their profits.  
(Note: I'm trying to take this from their perspective, not mine.)

It's a little more complex than just having prefixes and postfixes.  
Actually, if you look at the latest e-mail worms and their variance in 
variant naming between AV vendors, it's a lot more complex than 
standardized prefixes and whatnot.

Not to mention the fact that many businesses won't do so as a matter of 
ego/self-reliance. 

             -Barry