ClamAV Virus Naming Reference

Warning: This page was not updated for months, sorry. I think about some solution (such as a wiki), but for now go to your favourite search engine and/or check the automatically generated Virus Alias Database at http://www.rainingfrogs.co.uk/.

Clam AntiVirus Some other products Notes
Delwin.1759 DelWin.1759 (Symantec), Delwin (Hbedv), Delwin (Sophos), Goblin.1759 (Drweb)  
Exploit.HTML.Bagle.Q-eml - First signature to detect Bagle.Q e-mails. Not used anymore. Update database!
Exploit.HTML.Bagle.Q-1to8-eml - 8 generic signatures (Exploit.HTML.Bagle.Q-1-eml to Exploit.HTML.Bagle.Q-8-eml) to detect all (hopefully) Worm.Bagle.Q e-mails with Microsoft exploit MS03-032.
Exploit.HTML.SomeFool.V NetSky.V NetSky.V's mail component which downloads executable
Exploit.TCP.Mydoom ? Generic signature to detect binaries that try to overtake Mydoom infected computers through its backdoor.
Exploit.TCP.Mydoom.B - Removed. Update database!
Trojan.Bagle.X ?  
Trojan.Hackarmy.N Troj/Hackarmy-A, Backdoor.Hackarmy.n Sat, 15 May 2004 13:16:52 +0200
Trojan.Hackarmy.N.2 Tue, 18 May 2004 15:45:13 +0200
Trojan.Hackarmy.N.3
Trojan.Proxy.W32.Bobax.C TrojanProxy.Win32.Bobax.c Tue, 18 May 2004 15:45:13 +0200
Worm.Bagle.A Bagle.A  
Worm.Bagle.A2 Bagle.C  
Worm.Bagle.A2-dll Bagle.C DLL loader dropped by Worm.Bagle.A2.
Worm.Bagle.A3 Bagle.D ?  
Worm.Bagle.C - Old name of Worm.Bagle.E. Update database!
Worm.Bagle.D-dll - "Detection of backdoor file dropped by Bagle." The Worm.Bagle.A3 one, I think.
Worm.Bagle.E Bagle.E  
Worm.Bagle.F Bagle.F Actually two very similar versions. I think Sophos calls them W32/Bagle-F and W32/Bagle-G.
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd Bagle.F and newer Text and header fragments to catch mails with encrypted zip files created by Bagle worms.
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd-2
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd-3
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd-4
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd-5
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd-6
Worm.Bagle.F-zippwd-7
Worm.Bagle.H-zippwd-1
Worm.Bagle.Gen-1 - Generic signature to match possible future variants. Also matches old variants and this name is printed instead of specific versions.
Worm.Bagle.Gen-2
Worm.Bagle.Gen-unp
Worm.Bagle.Gen-dll - Generic detection of backdoor files dropped by Bagles.
Worm.Bagle.Gen-rarpwd - Generic signature to detect password protected Bagle RAR files.
Worm.Bagle.Gen-vbs - Generic signature to detect VBS (Visual Basic Script) component of newer Bagles (introduced in Worm.Bagle.Y).
Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd - Generic signature to detect password protected Bagle zip files.
Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd-2
Worm.Bagle.H Bagle.H Kaspersky calls it I-Worm.Bagle.g.
Worm.Bagle.I Bagle.I Kaspersky calls it I-Worm.Bagle.h.
Worm.Bagle.J Bagle.J Kaspersky calls it I-Worm.Bagle.i.
Worm.Bagle.K Bagle.K Kaspersky calls it I-Worm.Bagle.j.
Worm.Bagle.M ?  
Worm.Bagle.N Bagle.N (F-Secure), I-Worm.Bagle.n (Kaspersky), W32.Beagle.M@mm (Symantec), Win32/Bagle.O@mm (RAV)  
Worm.Bagle.N-2 - Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:57:52 +0200 Submission notes: Bagle variant found within binary (probably Bagle variant with now cleaned Elkern/FunLove virus).
Worm.Bagle.O ?  
Worm.Bagle.P I-Worm.Bagle.o (Kaspersky) Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:31:36 +0100
Worm.Bagle.P.2 ? I don't know why another signature. (But it was changed on 2004.04.27 to avoid false positives.)
Worm.Bagle.Q ? Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:07:28 +0100. Also used for Worm.Bagle.Y for a short time.
Worm.Bagle.R W32/Bagle.T@mm (F-Prot), W32/Bagle-R (Sophos) Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:39:39 +0100
Worm.Bagle.U Bagle.U (F-Secure), I-Worm.Bagle.s (Kaspersky) Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:56:31 +0100
Worm.Bagle.V Bagle.V  
Worm.Bagle.Y W32/Bagle-W (Sophos), Bagle.Y (F-Secure), I-Worm.Bagle.y (Kaspersky), W32.Beagle.W@mm (Symantec), W32/Bagle.z@MM (McAfee) Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:48:09 +0200 (As Worm.Bagle.Q.)
Worm.Bagle.Y-vbs - VBS component of Worm.Bagle.Y (Worm.Bagle.Y dropper). It was called Worm.Bagle.Q-vbs for a short time.
Worm.Bagle.Z I-Worm.Bagle.z (Kaspersky), W32/Bagle.aa@MM (McAfee) Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:26:03 +0200. Also the old name of Trojan.Bagle.X.
Worm.Bagle.Z-vbs - VBS component of Worm.Bagle.Z.
Worm.Bagle.AA-vbs - Renamed to Worm.Bagle.Gen-vbs.
Worm.Bagle.AB ? Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:45:45 +0200
Worm.Bagle.AC ? Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:44:36 +0200
Worm.Bugbear.C Worm/Bugbear.C.1, Worm/BugBear.B.dll (Hbedv), Win32.HLLM.Bugbear.3 (Drweb), W32/Bugbear-E (Sophos)  
Worm.Bugbear.E I-Worm/Bugbear.D (AVG), Win32.HLLM.Bugbear.4 (Drweb) Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:43:12 +0200
Worm.Bugbear.F I-Worm.Tanatos.f Wed, 19 May 2004 14:24:13 +0200
Worm.Cidra.D Cidra.D According to F-Secure this is not a worm but a trojan.
Worm.Cjdra.A - Old name of Worm.Cidra.D. Update database!
Worm.Gibe.F Swen.A aka Gibe.F  
Worm.Gibe.F.UPX.2 Swen.B aka Gibe.F  
Worm.Korgo.H W32.Korgo.H (Symantec), Win32.Lsabot (Drweb) Tue, 8 Jun 2004 03:09:07 +0200
Worm.Korgo.J Win32.Lsabot (Drweb), Win32.Worm.Korgo.1.Gen (Bitdefender), Worm.Win32.Padobot.gen (Kaspersky) Thu, 17 Jun 2004 03:21:21 +0200
Worm.Korgo.N ? Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:19:37 +0200
Worm.Lentin.A - Old name of Worm.Yaha.A. Update database!
Worm.Lovgate.T W32.Lovgate.W@mm (Symantec) ? Mon, 17 May 2004 22:08:39 +0200
Worm.Lovgate.V W32.Lovegate.R@MM (Symantec), Worm/Lovgate.V (Hbedv), W32/Lovgate-V (Sophos) Wed, 7 Apr 2004 04:37:06 +0200
Worm.Lovgate.W-1 ? "Variant of Lovgate. Some of the files dropped by this virus is detected as Worm.Lovegate.Y."
Worm.Lovgate.W-1-dll
Worm.Mydoom.C.2 I-Worm.Mydoom.c (Kaspersky), Worm/Mydoom.C.2 (Hbedv), Win32.HLLM.MyDoom.based (Drweb) Tue, 25 May 2004 10:49:09 +0200 (Possibly F-Secure's Mydoom.K.)
Worm.Mydoom.E.UPX - Old name of Worm.Mydoom.F. Update database!
Worm.Mydoom.E.UPX-dll - Old name of Worm.Mydoom.F-dll. Update database!
Worm.Mydoom.F Mydoom.F This is the variant that deletes files and attacks www.riaa.com.
Worm.Mydoom.F-dll Mydoom.F This is the DLL file dropped by Worm.Mydoom.F in %windir%\system32.
Worm.Mydoom.G Mydoom.G  
Worm.Mydoom.G-dll Mydoom.G This is the DLL file dropped by Worm.Mydoom.G.
Worm.Mydoom.Gen-1 - Generic signature to match possible future variants.
Worm.Mydoom.Gen-2
Worm.Mydoom.Gen-unp
Worm.Mydoom.H Mydoom.H  
Worm.Mydoom.H-dll Mydoom.H This is the DLL file dropped by Worm.Mydoom.H.
Worm.Mydoom.I - Old name of Worm.Sober.D. Update database! (At the time of writing no real Mydoom.I existed.)
Worm.Mydoom.J w32/mydoom.j@mm (McAfee), W32/Bugbear-D (Sophos)  
Worm.Mydoom.N W32.Evaman.C@mm (Symantec) Reported by Robert Fleming.
Worm.Nyxem I-Worm.Nyxem (Kaspersky), W32.Blackmal@mm (Symantec) More aliases: Mywife, Hunchi, Blueworm, Blackworm
Worm.Nyxem.B I-Worm.Nyxem.b (Kaspersky), W32.Blackmal.B@mm (Symantec)  
Worm.Plexus.A Worm/Plexus.A (Hbedv), W32/Dumaru-AK (Sophos), Trojan.MulDrop.841 (Drweb), BackDoor.Dumaru (Drweb) A worm and its backdoor.
Worm.Plexus.B I-Worm.Plexus.b (Kaspersky) Submitted as W32.Explet.a@mm.
Worm.Sasser.A Sasser.A 01-may-2004 13:02 +000
Worm.Sasser.B Sasser.B 2004.05.03 20:51 GMT
Worm.Sasser.D Sasser.D 03-May-2004 18:43 +000
Worm.SCO.A Mydoom.A, Novarg, Mimail.R, Win32.MMail.A, W32.Shimg  
Worm.SCO.A-dam - Same as Worm.SCO.A. Update database!
Worm.Sober.D Sober.D  
Worm.Sober.F Sober.F, I-Worm.Vb.C  
Worm.Sober.G I-Worm.Sober.g Fri, 14 May 2004 22:48:11 +0200
Worm.Sober.H W32.Sober.H@mm (Symantec), Sober.H (F-Secure) Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:27:21 +0200
Worm.SomeFool NetSky.B aka Moodown.B Reportedly also printed for NetSky.A.
Worm.SomeFool.B NetSky.C aka Moodown.C Packed with Petite
Worm.SomeFool.B.2 NetSky.C aka Moodown.C Packed with UPX
Worm.SomeFool.B-petite - Old name of Worm.SomeFool.D. Update database!
Worm.SomeFool.D NetSky.D aka Moodown.D  
Worm.SomeFool.E NetSky.E  
Worm.SomeFool.F NetSky.F  
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 - Generic signature to match possible future variants. Also matches old variants and this name is printed instead of specific versions. Variants detected by Gen-1 include NetSky.D and variants detected by Gen-2 include NetSky.B.
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-unp
Worm.SomeFool.I I-Worm.NetSky.i (Kaspersky), W32/Netsky-J (Sophos), Win32/Netsky.K@mm (RAV), Win32.HLLM.Netsky.22016 (DrWeb) Masked by generic signature. (Or not?)
Worm.SomeFool.K I-Worm.NetSky.k (Kaspersky)  
Worm.SomeFool.L W32/Netsky-L (Sophos)  
Worm.SomeFool.M W32/Netsky-M  
Worm.SomeFool.N I-Worm.NetSky.o (Kaspersky), WORM_NETSKY.N (Trend Micro)  
Worm.SomeFool.O I-Worm.NetSky.p (Kaspersky)  
Worm.SomeFool.P Netsky.P, I-Worm.NetSky.q (Kaspersky) Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:38:56 +0100
Worm.SomeFool.P-dll
Worm.SomeFool.Q NetSky.Q  
Worm.SomeFool.Q-2 Worm/NetSky.Q (Hbedv)  
Worm.SomeFool.R W32/Netsky.r@MM (McAfee), W32/Netsky-R (Sophos), Worm/NetSky.S.1 (Hbedv), Win32.HLLM.Netsky.based (Drweb)  
Worm.SomeFool.R.2 I-Worm.NetSky.r  
Worm.SomeFool.X I-Worm/Netsky.X (GRISoft), W32/Netsky.x@MM (McAfee), W32.Netsky.X@mm (Symantec), Netsky.X@mm (Norman), W32/Netsky.X.worm (Panda), WORM_NETSKY.X (Trend Micro), Worm/NetSky.X (Hbedv), I-Worm.NetSky.y (Kaspersky), W32/Netsky-Y (Sophos) Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:27:03 +0200 (first as Worm.SomeFool.Y)
Worm.SomeFool.Y NetSky.Y Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:13:10 +0200 (Also pevious name of Worm.SomeFool.X.)
Worm.SomeFool.Z NetSky.Z Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:25:56 +0200
Worm.SomeFool.X-msg
Worm.SomeFool.Y-msg
Worm.SomeFool.Z-msg-1
Worm.SomeFool.Z-msg-2
Worm.SomeFool.Z-msg-3
Worm.SomeFool.Z-msg-4
Worm.SomeFool.Z-msg-5
Worm.SomeFool.Z-msg-6
- Harmless text files dropped by the corresponding worm.
Worm.SomeFool.AA Worm/Netsky.AA (Hbedv), W32/Netsky-AA (Sophos), Win32.HLLM.Netsky.17408 (Drweb) Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:43:12 +0200
Worm.SomeFool.AB Netsky.AB Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:51:00 +0200
Worm.SomeFool.AC Netsky.AC 03-May-2004 11:03 +000
Worm.Tibbo W32/Misodene.a@MM (McAfee), Win32.HLLM.Generic.289 (Drweb) Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:12:26 +0200
Worm.Tibbo-zippwd - Detects password protected zip file containing Worm.Tibbo.
Worm.VB.C - Renamed to Worm.Sober.F. Update database!
Worm.Yaha.A Yaha.A aka Lentin.A  
Worm.YoursID Bagle.B  

There is a supplemental Bagle table, too.

Additions and corrections can be sent to nfl <at-sign> nfllab.com.

Last notes:
Yes, I know that worms are not viruses but it's simpler to write.
If you don't see the name of a virus here, it doesn't mean that ClamAV can't detect it.
The acronym "aka" means "also known as".