From: Ellen K. 

Well, but besides that the AV folks sometimes give the same virus different
names.   Remember Welchia?   Didn't that one have another name
also?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:34:51 -0500, "Geo" 
wrote in message :

>"Randall Parker"
>
>wrote in message news:4202c80b{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Do different virus vendors give different names to the same virus? Or the
>same name
>> to two different variants that they each come across first?
>
>Usually you will get a whole bunch of people trying to modify a virus for
>their own purposes, sometimes they change the name sometimes they don't
>bother.
>
>Geo.
>

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