Alias

An alias what a virus is referred to before being assigned an official name. This is retained when other anti-virus retailers wish to reference a particular problem to the public. An alias initially came about due to a lack of reference collection. This has resulted in anti-virus programmers that cannot fully validate names for computer viruses. With so many viruses in existence, developers have chosen to deal with those that are actually causing genuine problems in the world of computers. It is impossible for retailers of anti-virus software to discover viruses at the exact same time, though they may actually discover it in somewhat concurrent fashion. This makes the different naming of each virus inevitable in the initial stages of discovery. This naming scheme was much needed and has provided users with an unbiased reference of virus titles. Aliases can be called upon to give clarification when a user needs to translate a particular program’s naming scheme from another.