-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Actually, I'm pretty sure eEye saw it and named it first. They at least had the first public analysis of it that I saw... Saphire sounds better anyway. ;) t On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:05:34 -0800 Andrew Plato <aplato@private> wrote: >Anybody else notice the interesting little war going on with this >worm. I believe ISS was the first to report the worm and they named >it SQL Slammer. > >But then other companies jumped on it and gave in their own name. > > >So now the worm has like 12 different names. ISS calles it SQL >Slammer, eEye and F-Secure call it Sapphire, Symantec calls it >SQLexp, and Kaspersky labes calls it Helkern, and Trend Micro has >the >most elegant name SQLP1434.A (which sounds more like an asteroid >then >a worm). > >I kind of liked Slammer - seeing as how it did slam the Internet >pretty hard. Sapphire sounds like a porn star and Helkern sounds >like >a German beer. > >Seems kinda petty to me, but when have security firms been above >pettiness? > >___________________________________ >Andrew Plato, CISSP >President / Principal Consultant >Anitian Corporation > >503-644-5656 Office >503-644-8574 Fax >503-201-0821 Mobile >www.anitian.com >___________________________________ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.2 (Java) Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify wl0EARECAB0FAj42GskWHHRvYnlodXNoQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRCCZA+ELDMXIF9r AKCzI9lHAemv/4MLEvNEqm0RYgw7OwCeIkaHC6yO9zzIsuSzp6a+zWSWUT8= =j8PO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Big $$$ to be made with the HushMail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427
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