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How Scientific Naming Works

Overview In the field of computer viruses, getting the correct sample of a virus that is spreading on users' systems is also important. But, unlike the life sciences, scientific, virus sample naming is a major problem.

A well-known incident comes to mind in which a popular antivirus program happened to detect two viruses by the same name. One virus was merely a minor nuisance while the other was destructive. Unfortunately, the name used for both was the name commonly used by antivirus products for just the more-benign virus. When the company released a warning about the dangerous virus, but used the common name for the benign one, much confusion followed.

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Publisher	WildList Organization International	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus

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