Yes that's right I have a worm in one of my linux boxes and I don't know what to do with it. It's an e-mail worm called "Worm.SomeFool.P". How did I get this worm? Well I followed the instructions from my ISP, for some strange reason he likes to work on windows but uses FreeBSD for his servers. Anyhow he asked me to FTP a certain file "z1" from his server to my machine then to e-mail it to him as an attachment. Woops ........ his server would not accept my e-mail .. and I tried several times ..... some how this made him very happy. It turns out he just installed ClamAV on his mail server to slow or stop the spread of windows e-mail viruses and needed me to test it for him as he could not. NOW I have this little worm in my machine, it has done me no harm so I can't justify killing it, I can not send it back out in to the world to feed as all my e-mails get rejected, if I keep it it will starve as it can not feed in a Linux environment. So just what should I to do ?
Go on the linux forum and ask USAlug what to do, I hope you delete if from your box Mushroom for the sake of the internet users.
On another forum they said that it is a a pseudonym for the Netsky virus. Check Symantec's Virus Remover Instrustions . Im not sure whether this works for linux as well.
Have already posted it at http://usalug.org under Linux Humor and Jokes even though the facts are 100% true, it is still a joke. Viruses and Worms affect Linux users in that they consume bandwidth and affect the credibility of the net, so do all I can to neutralize them. I had also mentioned to my ISP that will all the firewalls going up that the malware writers would be using e-mail as a means of infection even more, so he installed AV on his mail server.