New virus outbreak

[Nerijus Baliunas]

Just released Kaspersky update also detects it as Novarg.

Nerijus

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:58:43 -0600 Mike Kercher <mike at CAMAROSS.NET> wrote:

> Sophos just release an IDE
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Kevin Spicer
> > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:39 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: New virus outbreak
> >
> > 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.