Who names this stuff? What’s a Confiker?
On 2009/05/24
Biological infections have catchy names like the plague, measles, or swine flu. Hurricanes have peoples names, like Andrew or Katrina. But computer infections have epithets like W32.Simouk, W32.Gaobot.AJD and, of course, Confiker (AKA Downadup). At first glance you might mistake these for celebrity baby names. I am pretty certain they are not. [...]
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