Re: CME: A Total Failure -- Throw in the Towel

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Fergie wrote:

> It stinks. And has solved nothing.
>
> Als: Robert Lemos article on SecrityFocus:
>
> "Virus names likely a lost cause"
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11380
>
> Likely? I'd say 'already'. Opportunity to succeed on this has
> long past.
 
There never was an opportunity to succeed. Back when only two products 
could actually do anything like identify the viruses, and back when there 
was a couple of hundred, and a dozen new ones per month, then it was 
possible, and we did establish a standard set of names. But that was 
then and this is now, and when you have a couple of hundred new things each 
month, independently identified by a couple of dozen companies and with an 
urgency in putting out a fix, a common naming standard isn't possible. All 
that is possible, is to create yet another name (CME-24) that will get 
used by one or two people. Whoopee-do.

Remember the reaction of this list? Create and use *yet another* name, 
which no product was using.



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