Virus name: Worm.SomeFool.P

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Hi!

Every email that we receive that ClamAV detemines has a virus has the same virus name Worm.SomeFool.P.

This is hard for me to believe.

Any ideas?

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I haven’t seem any false positive on ClamAV so far, it could be that someone infected with the virus is mass mailing you.
One guy on Afghanistan sent me 3000+ copies of Sobig.F at the time.

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got two of these in my inbox today:

ClamAV anti-virus scanner has intercepted and deleted a message.

The following is a summary of the infected message:

Virus name: Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1
From: **********@earthlink.net
To: [email protected]

Please be aware that a virus spread by email normally forges the
address of the sender. There is a good chance that the infected message
was not received from the sender listed above.

4

I guess SomeFool is a popular virus?

5

what does that virus actually do? does anybody know?

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There is only one way to find out :wink:

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[QUOTE=DirtBag]
what does that virus actually do? does anybody know?
[/QUOTE]

It appears to be a pseudonym for the Netsky virus. Here’s the removal details -

Symantec Security Center

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[QUOTE=Yash]
There is only one way to find out :wink:
[/QUOTE]

eeeeh.. I leave that to you :smiley: