Common Malware Enumeration Undergoes Revamp

Representatives of the security sector have announced that the Common Malware Enumeration (CME) program has undergone a revamp in order to provide a more comprehensive perspective on the malware environment. CME's purpose is to centralize the viral threats on common identifiers. "CME provides single, common identifiers to new virus threats to reduce public confusions during malware outbreaks. CME is not an attempt to replace the vendor names currently used for viruses and other forms of malware, but instead aims to facilitate the adoption of a shared, neutral indexing capability for malware," states a message posted on the site.

The restructuring to the common virus names aims to improve the connections between the public and the anti-virus companies, while delivering a more comprehensive information bridge to link the anti-virus community at the basic data-sharing level.

In this context, CME's services have expended to include the end user, and not only corporate clients, as it has been the case so far. While so far CME collaborated only with anti-virus companies, its viral identifier solutions are now available to the general public that can present an issue and receive a CME non-sequential number to be associated with their report.