Malware Naming Convention?

[nihil]

Well it seems that the Department of Homeland Security are getting involved via their US-CERT team.

I wonder how many of the non-US AV providers will buy into the scheme?

http://www.virusbtn.com/news/virus_news/2004/11_25.xml

I suppose if they took the same approach as the pharmaceutical industry it would help. Drugs have a generic or "official" name and then the manufacturers have brand names. You use the generic name as the cross-reference.

[rapier57]

Yeah, they are looking to try to standardize and coordinate efforts to deal with vulnerabilities and such. I think they are making a good effort. Whether it gets the industry support will be the thing.

Here's the link to the site that has the details:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cve/