Went to pandasoftware No virii Went to housecall.trendmicro No virii Went to bitdefender Found Virii Do these people not collaborate together? It happens quite often. Do they have exclusive rights to a certain virii detection? It makes you wonder whether these firms actually make these Virii? Tt Lanfire nf7-s v2.0 XP-m 2500@210x11 SP 97 512mb pc3200 Jou Jye 550w psu FX5600 WDCaviar 60gb Seagate Barracuda 80gb ;~}

"Do these people not collaborate together?" I doubt it.They do compete with each other. "Do they have exclusive rights to a certain virii detection?" I doubt that too. "It makes you wonder whether these firms actually make these Virii?" Anythings possible.

Happened to me also with the bat-mumu worm.(see my post further down the list).avg=nothing adware=nothing trendmicro=nothing xcleaner=nothing bat-mumu removal tool=nothing spybot s&d=bat-mumu?....Go figure! ASROCK K7S8X M/B AMD ATHLON 2000+XP@2ghz 384MB DDR 266MHZ GEFORCE4 AGP8X 64MB MAXTOR 60GB H/D LITEON SOHW-1213S DVDRW SAMSUNG SM-332B CDRW/DVD QTEC AND STATICX SILENT COOLERS

This is common between all anti-virus programs/scanners. Some will find things that others do not, and so on, and so on.... It is simply the way of things. Each of these companies have their own little teams of wonder gnomes constantly looking for and dissecting security threats. As with all things in life, when a new threat emerges, somebody has to be first to detect it. On the same token, it is also common for different companies to call or identify viruses and threats by different names. As far as this question: "Do they have exclusive rights to a certain virii detection?" They probably do have some exclusive right to whatever detection routine they developed to find the bug, just like code for any other software. However, they DO NOT have exclusive rights for protecting againt any particular virus. Anyone can create their own detections/protections against the same threat. As far as collaborating.....DREAM ON! Anti-virus business is big business....I'm sure they don't share and play nicely. Any questions? AOSCLAY PEBKAC, baby

What is virii? Is that a new form of virus or viruses I'm not aware of? KTTD Life is not fair, people lie and making it is not easy in this world.

What is virii? Just a slang that some people use for plural of viruses. Officially, there is no such word.

EC, I know I was just making a bad joke. I know it is slang but if Google can become a verb I am sure Viri has a chance as well and it is one i not two. KTTD Life is not fair, people lie and making it is not easy in this world.