On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 at  8:43:41 -0500, Kevin M. Myer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The ClamAV team did a great job of getting the signature out for MyDoom.A
> (SCO.A) virus well before the commercial vendors had signatures.  However,
> yesterday, we started receiving what turns out to be MyDoom.D messages.  I
> submitted a sample at about 9:00AM EST, on 2/10/2004 but am still awaiting a
> signature to detect MyDoom.D.
> 
> My question:  I knew there was a new virus on the loose yesterday morning.  Is
> there a way to use a copy of the virus in the wild to generate a temporary
> signature?  I kept watching for updates yesterday but started stripping
> attachments as a temporary relief measure when I realized how wide spread this
> had become.
> 
> So is there a temporary stop-gap measure that we can employ for signature
> generation for viruses in the wild?
> 

We are working on your (and other) submissions in the moment.
We apologise for the delay! :-( .

As a quick, temporary fix, you can use the attached file, containing the
signature prepared by one of developers - Christoph Cordes. Just place
it in your database directory and reload clamd.

Once again: sorry!

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Worm.SCO.A.enc 
(Clam)=b7c3917eb1ffe653304e1f44494c5b818c945d4d7801515c270c0b0e107772654d004e4f535d53555d17004f77647d6b31567d0a696a7a6af9984177157e6060f24992dd57ec89e106cd8097d0b5064074d1e7a8

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