New virus outbreak

Kevin Spicer kevins at BMRB.CO.UK
Mon Jan 26 23:39:07 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 23:25, Admin wrote:

> Worm.SCO.A
> My ClamAV is picking it all up and calling it the SCO worm. Hmm. You'd
> think they would have devised a bug that would clobber Linux servers with
> that name. I wonder why it acquired that one?

Symantec are calling it Novarg  (Novell Argument?)

Heres what the clamav database update said...

Note: The name may change once other av-scanners start to detect this.
The currently used name was suggested by Tomasz Kojm due to its content.






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