Create an Account
username: password:
 
  MemeStreams Logo

Many Variants | F-Secure : News from the Lab

search

dmv
dmv's Pics
My Blog
My Profile
My Audience
My Sources
Send Me a Message

sponsored links

dmv's topics
Arts
Business
Games
Health and Wellness
Home and Garden
Miscellaneous
Current Events
Recreation
Local Information
Science
Society
Sports
Technology

support us

Get MemeStreams Stuff!


 
Many Variants | F-Secure : News from the Lab
Topic: Miscellaneous 4:34 pm EST, Oct 31, 2005

As you know, new variants of old viruses are named by using a variable letter. Virus.a, Virus.b, Virus.c...etc.

When we have more than 26 variants of a virus, we run out of letters. Then we roll over from Virus.z to Virus.aa, Virus.ab, Virus.ac etc.

For some virus families, even this is not enough. They've become so large (over 700 members) that we've ended up to variant zz. When we, of course, roll over start over with Virus.aaa, Virus.aab, Virus.aac etc.
...
For reference, here are the virus families that have already wrapped to "three digits", ie. over variant letter ".aaa".

Many Variants | F-Secure : News from the Lab



 
 
Powered By Industrial Memetics
RSS2.0