RE: Worm.SCO.A

["Michael Bellears" <MBellears () staff datafx com au>]

>       Anyone else encountering this? I've just got hammered 
> with a few hundred of these in the last hour and a half and I 
> can't quite discern what exactly the virii is. There doesn't 
> seam to be a map from ClamAV virus naming format to any 
> other. Anyone have a clue of what this virus is?

Mydoom.A (Aliases - Mimail.R, Novarg.A, Shimg, W32.Novarg.A@mm,
W32/Mydoom@MM)

I've seen approx. 6000 in the last 24 hours.

Regards,
MB

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