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Name That Worm

Posted by Zonk on from the more-sense-less-clutter dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Sinners and Sin by Slashdot_Gandhi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hate the sin and love the sinner. -- Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Politics? by gmuslera · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why the article is in that section?

  3. Re:I'd like to nominate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    > Only faggy metrosexuals use macs. It is a well known fact. You knew this before you bought a mac. Therefore you either are a faggy metrosexual or even worse... You are a wannabe faggy metrosexual.

    So, umm, you're suggesting that mac haters are fruit fuckers? :)

  4. Trusted searches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All this deal making raises the question of how exactly we can be sure Google or (Yahoo or whomever) is to be trusted?
     
    A good example of this is what happens when you do a search for "failure" on Google. The first result returned is a reference to President George Bush. Now Google asserts that this is just a result of lots of people independently rigging the system. But why should we trust them? How do we know they aren't a bunch of conspirational Democrats?
     
    It is time there was established an independent board for assuring the objectivity of web searches. Since no one government could reasonably be expected to oversee such a task, the best hope would be a non-profit NGO like the Red Cross, or some sort of United Nations commission.
     
        Until this comes about, the only web searches any one of us can truly trust are the ones we perform ourselves.

  5. This is go4ts3x by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    disturbing. If you Contaminated while halt. Even Emacs For the project. bring 7our own save Linux from a FreeBSD at about 80 they're gone Came