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About VGrep

'That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.'

Anyone who has had any experience of the anti-virus world will know that a single virus can have several different names - anti-virus vendors are not obliged to conform to any naming conventions, nor do they tend to do so.

VGrep is a system designed to help clear up some of the confusion surrounding the naming of viruses. It works by running scanners across a large collection of virus-infected files, and parsing their output into a simple text database.

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The VGrep database is currently maintained by Dmitry Gryaznov, Senior Manager, Advanced Security Research, McAfee Security, and without his help, this tool would not exist in its current up-to-date form.

VGrep was originally created by Ian Whalley.

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