From: "Rich Gauszka" 

http://msmvps.com/harrywaldron/archive/2004/11/07/18180.aspx

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4202c80b{at}w3.nls.net...
> It seems to me that you can't count on a virus's name for itself as a way
> to identify it. Two viruses could easily be given the same name by the
> same developer or by two different virus developers.
>
> Look at all the trojan viruses on this Sophos link:
> http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/index_st_trojan.html
>
> 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?

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