Re: virus names?

In the message "[Micronet] virus names?", dated 2004-11-08,
tedcrum@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote:

>We just got a message from SNS saying that one of our computers is
>infected with a virus detected by "Sophie" as W32/Bagle-AU. It would be
>useful to know what this virus is called by Symantec.
>
>Is "Sophie" a product of Sophos?

   Strictly speaking, no. It's a scanner that uses Sophos' virus
identities (IDEs), however, and is often used with mail servers:

   http://www.vanja.com/tools/sophie/

>If so, can I assume that Symantec calls
>this W32.Beagle.AV ?

   Yes. A Web search can help identify some Rosetta Stones that
translate between the annoyingly varying names (or 'aliases') used by
anti-virus software vendors to describe identical malware. Here are
a cuople of examples for the virus you mention:

   http://secunia.com/virus_information/13041/beagle.av/
   http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/virus/results.php3?virusID=113

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

>
>Thanks!
>
>-tc
>
>
>--
>Ted Crum
>tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Received on Mon Nov 8 10:34:25 2004