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List:       clamav-users
Subject:    RE: [Clamav-users] I-Worm/Generic.RX undetected
From:       "Randal, Phil" <prandal () herefordshire ! gov ! uk>
Date:       2006-09-20 14:49:43
Message-ID: 86144ED6CE5B004DA23E1EAC0B569B580F5EE284 () isabella ! herefordshire ! gov ! uk
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Daniel Hertanu wrote:

> Yesterday I received 3 emails in which the local antivirus (AVG for 
> Windows, Free edition) has detected a virus named 
> I-Worm/Generic.RX. The email server is a sendmail with
> clamav-milter. Having a look into the log 
> file I discovered that clamav-milter declared the emails as clean.
> Freshclam is executed daily, so the virus database is updated. 
> As this virus name is not listed in Clamav virus database, 
> I'm wondering if there is known under a different name,
> and, if so, why it was not detected. 
> Any idea would be much appreciated. Thank you.
> 
> Daniel

The standard rule is to submit any sample raw email to each of

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

http://www.virustotal.com/

http://www.clamav.net/sendvirus.html

That way you're doing a service to the whole internet community (as well
as finding out which scanners pick it up already).

Cheers,

Phil
--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
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