Name That Worm

Ant wrote to mention a C|NET article reporting on the Common Malware Enumeration (CME) initiative, now emerging from its test phase. From the article: "Next month, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) plans to officially take the wraps off the effort, meant to reduce the confusion caused by the different names security companies give worms, viruses and other pests. The project assigns a unique identifier to a particular piece of malicious software. When included in security software, in alerts and in virus encyclopedia entries, this identifier should help people determine which pest is hitting their systems and whether they are protected ..."

Comments

In Soviet Russia..

[Anonymous Coward]

...Worms name YOU!

Re:In Soviet Russia..

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe they are funny and you just don't have a sense of humor.

It's obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

All worms should be named "Bill"... after the man that made them all possible!

I'd like to nominate

[Anonymous Coward]

The use of the name "FruitFucker 2000".

Thank you and good nite

Re:I'd like to nominate

[Tackhead]

> I'd like to nominate
> The use of the name "FruitFucker 2000".

Sure thing, but we'll have to wait until my OS X box gets hit.

What?

[Overly Critical Guy]

What's an "internet worm?"

Signed,
Every OS X user

Re:What?

[Mancat]

What is "Mac OS X?"

Signed,
Ninety Percent of the Personal Computing Consumer Market

Re:What?

[Have Blue]

Something really awesome.

Signed,
The Top Ten Percent of the Personal Computing Consumer Market

Re:Naming Worms - Virii's pride

[Locke2005]

You mean, you're not likely to brag about being the creator of the "Sociopath trying to compensate for tiny penis" worm?

Let's use AOL disk passwords

[G4from128k]

Instead of hard-to-remember ID numbers for malware, why not use those funky passwords that AOL puts on their CDs for creating new accounts. I'd like to here about viruses names such as WONTON-FLOES or GRAVEL-TAPE, to use two passwords from recently mailed AOL CDs.