Time to call a spade a spade

If you’re paranoid like me, one of your regular daily routines will be a check of your corporate anti-virus to make sure that it is receiving updates regularly. This is not an unreasonable precaution; several times I have seen major brand products silently go into a sulk and stop talking to the update server.

Of course, things get more complicated if you then look at the numerous mailing lists covering new malware "releases" and try to work out if you can sit back and relax over your morning cup of coffee, or hold your breath until the necessary update comes down the wire.

This should be a simple exercise. Unfortunately, vendors pick different names for the same thing, and steadfastly refuse to amend their naming scheme in line with the majority when things settle down. It's so bad now that there is even a tool to find out what company X and company Y call the same thing (the very handy vgrep, from www.virusbtn.com).

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