Does Symantec Maintain a Publically Available List of Viruses and other Malware?

It would be helpful to be able to review what's out there in light of my own recent experience.   I've searched the web in vain for such a list.   It seems to me that keeping this information in a black hole serves no one's interests so much as the perpetrators.   Thanks for any help.

Does Symantec Maintain a Publicly Available List of Viruses and other Malware?

 

They do:

 

http://us.norton.com/security_response/threatexplorer/

It would be helpful to be able to review what's out there in light of my own recent experience.   I've searched the web in vain for such a list.   It seems to me that keeping this information in a black hole serves no one's interests so much as the perpetrators.   Thanks for any help.