Isn't this a bit of a joke, doesn't GData use two other companies virus engine/database ?
Joke ? What do you mean?
Sorry it is irony
As in they are hardly in control over their own virus naming conventions if they are using the services of two other AVs (at least the did, I don't know if that is still correct). A long time ago Avast was one of these AVs.
If they use another vendors AV engine then the owner of that engine is the one that create signature and name
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Which is exactly the irony I'm talking about, the difficulty of multiple (not just two) AV companies with different methods of detection and naming conventions to have common/the same malware names.
What is the likelihood of Engine A and B having the same malware name (if the both detected it) and that's just two AV signature databases.