Common malware enumeration
The Common Malware Enumeration , or CME for short , is an organization under the auspices of the US-CERT , the aim of which is to achieve a uniform name for so-called Internet malware such as computer viruses , worms or Trojans .
Up until now, every manufacturer of anti-virus software introduced its own name for a threat, which created a lot of confusion for administrators and normal computer users . The CME has proposed a process to standardize names, which may include a. the companies Symantec , McAfee , Trend Micro , Kaspersky , F-Secure , Norman , Sophos , Computer Associates , Microsoft and MessageLabs agreed.