What we need is the Dewey Decimal System to go digital …
Specifically, someone needs to coax their keepers into putting some logical order into how computer viruses are sorted.
Recently, warnings abounded about the Kama Sutra virus quickly proliferating cyberspace, joining the Grew.A and Nyxem.E as serious threats to computer file security. However, only those who took a closer look at these strains were able to discover that they all had something in common.
They were virtually the same virus.
There is uniformity in the library world when it comes to catalogging the millions of books contained therein, thanks to Dewey. The weather service administrators do their bit for personnification by breathing a bit of nefarious charm into the tropical storms they track by assigning them names in alphabetical order each year. They key to both of these facts is that someone devised a universal means of identifying something that assists the general public in dealing with it.
The time is rapidly approaching when someone needs to step forward and put some order into the villainous world of computer infections.
New viruses arise so suddenly and...