CARO is a group that was established in 1990 to research and study malware

Malware

Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming that is designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, or gain unauthorized access to system resources, or that otherwise exhibits abusive behavior...

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The annual workshop is the biggest CARO annual event. The workshop usually organized and hosted by one anti-virus firm in their home country. The CARO Workshop 2009 was held in Budapest, Hungary and organized by Virus Buster. The 2010 CARO Workshop was held in Helsinki, Finland and organized by F-Secure. The 2011 CARO Workshop is being organized by AVAST Software in the Czech Republic.

The organization is perhaps best known for the Virus Naming Convention of 1991 (with subsequent revisions). Though widely adopted, it still faced usage obstacles. This has led to proposal of new naming systems from product vendors and industry groups.

External links

• CARO 2011 Workshop
• CARO 2010 Workshop
• The CARO Website
• The CARO Malware Naming Scheme