Many viruses not being detected :-(

[Thom Paine]

Usually the SARC or McAfee site have an alias list of the viruses as well.
You could check their site and see what other AV scanners call the same
virus.

Here's an example.

W32.Evaman.C at mm
WORM_MYDOOM.O [Trend Micro], W32/Mydoom.q at MM [McAfee], W32/MyDoom-Q[Sophos]

Does that help?

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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Many viruses not being detected :-(


>
>
> Admittedly my version of ClamAv and MailScanner are both a bit older 
> than yours, but my copy of Clam does catch Netsky.Z, although it calls 
> it Worm.SomeFool.Z.

How do you match up the popular/common name of the viruses with the clamav
obscure name?

My boss gets these watchguard newsletters telling him to look out for X
virus, which he forwards to me with a "are we protected against this" - i
can never tell, so i answer yes and hope - i would love to improve on this
:)

thanks
Pete

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