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The Game of the Name Malware Naming, Shape Shifters and Sympathetic Magic
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Once upon a time, one infection by specific malware looked much like another infection, to an antivirus scanner if not to the naked eye. Even back then, virus naming wasn't very consistent between vendors, but at least virus encyclopaedias and third-party resources like vgrep made it generally straightforward to map one vendor's name for a virus to another vendor's name for the same malware.
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