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Common Malware Enumeration Initiative

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the needs-a-better-acronym dept.

LogError writes "The Common Malware Enumeration Initiative was just announced. Headed by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and supported by an editorial board of anti-virus vendors and related organizations it should provide a neutral, shared identification method for malware outbreaks."

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  1. Re:The first virus I encountered... by MatrixCubed · · Score: 2, Funny

    My first really debilitating virus I encountered was the "Pakistani" virus in 11th grade computer science. Our teacher possessed a doctorate degree in CS, had worked at NASA in the past, and we were certain he wrote the virus (he was of Pakistani origin) to prevent his students from sharing their diskettes in order to cheat on course assignments, because this was the only time it showed up!

  2. Re:I have to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you have a blessed scroll of genocide, you can wipe them all out in one go.

  3. Will they include this one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here.

    May 22, 1990. A day that will live in computer science infamy.

  4. To paraphrase a line from... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..."Broken Arrow":

    I don't know what's scarier, Windows malware or that there's so much of it that they need a naming body to keep track of it all.

  5. Biggest malware is missing... by SysKoll · · Score: 1, Funny

    I cannot see an entry for Windows in this malware enumeration. Am I missing something here?

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  6. There's malware and then there's malware by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1, Funny

    enum malware { IE, PERL, EMACS, OUTLOOK, VB };
    We could call this a starting point.

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  7. One man's spyware... by cdn2k1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is another man's Comet Cursor.