Our users are sometimes confused what can some malware name mean. In fact – there are some names without an special meaning – they are mostly related to short-lived pieces of malware. Contrary to this daily stuff there are some malware families (long-lived, widespread or highly dangerous), which should have some unique name. One of the reasons could be the possibility of effective seeking through the results of search engines (check the difference when you type “Win32:Trojan-gen” and “Win32:Fasec” in your search engine). There’s not a mandatory naming convention applicable to all AV vendors. Our names contain these parts:

- platform (or file type) prefix

- malware name

- malware type

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