On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 06:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks for the response. I did check through this site first. I found some > references to the named viruses on this site but they were very old, and > there for came to the conclustion we were not talking about the same > virus. I also checked every comerical virus site that I could find, but > could not find any referance to clamav and what they might be calling this > virus. It seems that everyone has a different name for this virus. I > posted the question here because after I exhausted my search else where I > thought I might find an intelligent answer from people that know.
The CME-24 virus, known to CA and Symantec as "W32.Backmal-F" is being detected by ClamAV as Worm.VB-8 and a variant Worm.VB-9. Hope this helps. > > Thank you for at least trying to point me in the correct direction which > is a lot more than the last rude person did. In fairness a simple google search[1] revealed this information, as did a brief check of my ClamAV quarantine. If I recall correctly, this virus was discussed in detail on this list a few weeks ago. Now I might me totally misunderstanding the virus your are talking about in the first place, though. Michael > > Ken > [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=clamav+Blackmal.F _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
