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Often we have already identified the virus such as Backdoor.RmtBomb.12, Trojan.Win32.SendIP.15 and so on which of virus names are a bunch of English also brings the number with the anti-virus software, then some people stupid, and such a long string of names, how do I know what is the virus ah?

In fact, as long as we have some virus naming convention, we can through the anti-virus software, virus, arising from the reports of the virus was to determine the characteristics of some of the public.
So many viruses on the world, in order to facilitate management, anti-virus companies will in accordance with characteristics of the virus, named after the virus classification. Although each anti-virus companies are not the same naming rules, but generally are based on a uniform naming names. The general format is: “the virus prefix”. “Virus name”. “Virus suffix”.

Virus prefix refers to a type of virus, it is used to distinguish the virus of racial classification. Different types of viruses, their prefixes are different. For example, our common prefix Trojan Trojan, worm prefix is Worm, etc. There are others.

Virus name refers to a virus family characteristics, is used to distinguish and identify the virus family, such as the CIH virus, previously known family names are unified “CIH”, the Sasser worm virus family name is “Sasser”.

Virus suffix refers to the characteristics of a variant of the virus, is used to distinguish a family of specific variants of a virus. Are generally used in English to represent the 26 letters, such as the Sasser worm Worm.Sasser.b refers to a variant B, it is generally known as “Sasser variant B” or “Sasser variant B”. If the mutation of the virus is very much (also shows the great vitality of the virus can use numbers and letters ^_^), hybrid variant identified, said.

To sum up, a virus of the prefix for our rapidly determine whether the virus belongs to the type of virus is a very big help. By judging the type of virus, you can right that the virus has a rough assessment (of course this requires some common virus types accumulate knowledge, this is not the scope of this paper). Through the virus name we can use other means to find information on a better understanding of the detailed characteristics of the virus. Virus suffix let us know now hang out in your computer which variant of the virus is.