International Convention on naming viruses

The general international naming convention for viruses is prefix + virus name + suffix. The prefix indicates the operating platform or virus type of the virus. The DOS virus generally has no prefix. The virus name is the name of the virus and its family. The suffix is generally unavailable, the difference between the virus family and the virus can be a letter or a number to indicate the virus size.
For example, WM. Cap. A indicates A variant of the Cap virus family. WM indicates that the virus is A Word macro virus. The following describes the meanings of various prefixes:

WM: Word macro virus, which can be spread under Word6.0 and Word95 (Word7.0), or under Word97 (Word8.0) or above, however, this virus was not created in Word97.

W97M: Word97 macro virus, which is produced in Word97 and only spread in Word97 or later versions.

XM: Excel macro virus was created and spread under Excel5.0 and Excel95. Similarly, this virus can spread in Excel97 or later versions.

X97M: Excel macro virus created under Excel97, which can also spread under Excel5.0 and Excel97.

XF: Excel Formula virus, which is used to insert program fragments into a new Excel file.

AM: Create and spread the accesskey macro virus in Access95.

A97M: An accesskey macro virus that has been created and disseminated under Access97.

W95: as the name suggests, this type of virus is Windows 95. It runs in Windows 95 and can also run in Windows 98.

Win: Windows 3.x virus, infected with Windows 3.x operating system files.

W32: 32-bit Windows virus, infected with all 32-bit Widnows platforms.

The same 32-bit Windows virus, but only infected with the Windows NT operating system.

HLLC: High Level Language Companion virus, which is usually a DOS virus and is transmitted by creating an additional file (Companion file.

HLLP: High Level Language Parasitic viruses, which are usually DOS viruses and are Parasitic in the main file.

HLLO: High Level Language Overwriting virus, which is usually a DOS virus and is used to rewrite the main file with virus code.

Trojan/Troj: this is not a virus. It is just a Trojan horse. It is usually dressed as a useful program, but it usually has malicious code and the Trojan horse will not be infected.

VBS: A virus written in the Visual Basic Script language.

AOL: A special trojan in the United States online (AOL) environment. Its target is usually to steal AOL's Frethem/index.htm "target =" _ blank "style = text-decoration: underline; color: # 0000FF> password and other information.

PWSTEAL: a Trojan horse that steals password and other information.

JAVA: A virus written in JAVA programming language.