[TChad]

Wireshark is also the name of a perfectly legitimate network protocol analyzer:

http://www.wireshark.org/

[TChad]

The creators of the Wireshark protocol analyzer did not enjoy having their product's good name hijacked.

https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/08/antivirus-outbreak/

I have used Wireshark and I like it.

[jdietz]

You are correct and that is what makes finding the virus and deleting it so difficult.

The virus writers are so smart! I wish they would use their brains and time for good instead of this stuff.