I'm surprised the mailing list itself lets attachments go through.
Isn't that kind of odd, and something that ought to be prevented?
(I'm going to be unsubscribing until it is fixed, in any case.)
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John De Hoog
http://dehoog.org
Current
Attention!
It seems you have got a virus on your machine!
Please make sure you have the latest update of your virus scanner
and check all your files right away!
Take care,
John
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ON Friday, November 8, 2002, 8:42:07 AM, you wrote:
JDH I'm surprised the mailing list itself lets attachments go through.
JDH Isn't that kind of odd, and something that ought to be prevented?
John,
In the past it has been proven useful to be able to send attachments to
the list for analysis
Gerard wrote...
If you feel there is a risk a catching a virus this way I suggest you use
a good virus checker. A virus might arrive in your everyday mail :(
I do have virus checkers on all my machines, but it's still surprising
to get one from a mailing list, where I have no control over who
On 08 November 2002 at 02:36:31
in mid:79720402.20021107203631;certiflexdimension.com
Jonathan wrote:
JA -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
JA Hash: SHA1
JA On Thursday, November 07, 2002, Gary wrote...
Hello Scott,
AKA John ;)
...
JA No offence, but don't you think the attitude is a
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Hash: SHA1
Hi Keith,
8-Nov-2002, 09:07 Keith Anderson [KA] in
mid:49203029821.20021108090748;offspin.net said:
JA No offence, but don't you think the attitude is a little rude?
I thought it a little rude myself (sorry Gary!) but since no offence
was taken the
Hello all,
My AVG did *not* pick up the eicar test file.
(I get the list messages a a digest).
I am worried now.
How do I test whether I am safe?
--
Regards,
Ochrid
_ The Bat! v1.62b7 op Windows XP _
Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL
On Friday, November 8, 2002, 10:35:41 AM, Ochrid wrote:
O My AVG did *not* pick up the eicar test file.
My AVG did.
O (I get the list messages a a digest).
Does the digest mode discard attachments? Could that be why?
O I am worried now.
O How do I test whether I am safe?
Are you running the
Hello Thomas!
On Friday, November 8, 2002 at 4:25:29 AM you wrote:
Can we just do away with automated replies? They have never been
anything else but a nuisance. Sure you can do a lot with TB, but this
is a feature I'd like to see permanently disabled.
Not completely but it should be
Hello Clive!
On Friday, November 8, 2002 at 7:50:15 AM you wrote:
I think Gary's comments are justified.
No. There are list rules concerning tone and Gary's comment was out of
line. Not just because of the rules but because it was plain rude to
comment on a personal level without knowing what
In mid:151207187.20021108065015;ukf.net,
Clive Taylor [CT] wrote:'
CT I didn't know this was the EICAR file because NOD's plugin
CT deletes the attachment and doesn't flag up which virus was
CT attempting to infest this machine when it dumps the message into
CT the quarantine folder. It could
DWAre you running the most recent virus definitions from AVG? When did you
DWlast update? My AVG updates automatically every two days, I just did a
DWmanual download a minute ago there's a new update - so it must be less
DWthan 48 hours since the last one.
Thanks, Deborah, but I do check
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Ochrid wrote:
My AVG did *not* pick up the eicar test file.
(I get the list messages a a digest).
I am worried now.
How do I test whether I am safe?
in digest, You think, messages (one with Eicar) are attached in one MSG
attachment?
This is a problem in The Bat!,
ON Friday, November 8, 2002, 9:54:41 AM, you wrote:
JDH I do have virus checkers on all my machines, but it's still surprising
JDH to get one from a mailing list, where I have no control over who the
JDH sender is.
John,
That's life, full of surprises ;-)
--
Best regards,
Gerard
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Hash: SHA1
In mid:Pine.LNX.4.44.0211081210250.10775-10;lucie.gin,
Marek Mikus [MM] wrote:'
MM in digest, You think, messages (one with Eicar) are attached in
MM one MSG attachment?
Yes.
MM This is a problem in The Bat!, not in plugin or AVG. Nested
MM
Hi Thomas,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:47:57 +0700
Thomas Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
eicar.com
Why did my PC-Cillin6 with Real-Time Scan enabled not pick it up?
Ask PC-Cillin :-) My AVG w/ TB!-plugin caught it :-)
Seems your scanning ain't this effective as it should be, maybe you want
to
Attention!
It seems you have got a virus on your machine!
Please make sure you have the latest update of your virus scanner
and check all your files right away!
Take care,
John
Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information:
Hi Ochrid,
on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:35:41 +0100GMT (08.11.02, 11:35 +0100GMT here),
you wrote in mid:152887766.20021108113541;xs4all.nl :
O My AVG did *not* pick up the eicar test file.
O (I get the list messages a a digest).
O I am worried now.
O How do I test whether I am safe?
Try to save the
Hello Jason!
On Friday, November 8, 2002 at 1:17:02 PM you wrote:
It seems you have got a virus on your machine!
Please make sure you have the latest update of your virus scanner
and check all your files right away!
OK, your plug-in works fine, it triggers the necessary automatic
Attention!
It seems you have got a virus on your machine!
Please make sure you have the latest update of your virus scanner
and check all your files right away!
Take care,
John
Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information:
Hello Roland!
On Friday, November 8, 2002 at 1:40:40 PM you wrote:
Take care,
John
From shows Roland and it is signed by John?
--
Dierk Haasis
The Bat 1.62/Beta6 on Windows XP 5.1 2600Service Pack 1
Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.
Good afternoon List Members,
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 at 03:41:24 [GMT +0100] John wrote:
It was obviously a mistake. I have been sending it to myself, for
testing purposes and inadvertently sent it to the wrong address.
My apologies to all.
Didn't get anything. Attachment was caught by ISP
Peter wrote:
Try to save the file. My AV program doesn't check mail attachments either,
but it checks everything I save to any disk. I use AVP
I deleted message and attachment straight away, but wondered why
someone else in this group using AVG plus TB plugin reports a
proper reaction by AVG,
Hi Ochrid,
Friday, November 08, 2002, 14:50 +0100 (8:50 AM here) Ochrid [O] in
mid:10212602902.20021108145056;xs4all.nl said to The Bat List:
O So I wondered if I have somehow set something wrong. I have all
O email-scans etc. enabled.
Do you also have (under Options - Virus Protection) the two
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Hash: SHA1
On Friday, November 08, 2002, Deborah W wrote...
O I am worried now. How do I test whether I am safe?
Are you running the most recent virus definitions from AVG? When did
you last update? My AVG updates automatically every two days, I
just did a
O So I wondered if I have somehow set something wrong. I have all
O email-scans etc. enabled.
RDo you also have (under Options - Virus Protection) the two boxes at
Rthe bottom checked that Check attachments before opening saving?
RThis may help where the recent EICAR test file was an
On Friday, November 8, 2002, 2:47:43 PM, Jonathan Angliss wrote:
JA The Eicar test virus should not need an update in the virus
JA definitions file, and should be there from the very beginning of the
JA life of the virus scanner. It's almost a defacto standard for quick
JA tests on viruses.
Hello Peter,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:48:34 +0100 GMT (08/11/02, 18:48 +0700 GMT),
Peter Palmreuther wrote:
Ask PC-Cillin :-) My AVG w/ TB!-plugin caught it :-)
Seems your scanning ain't this effective as it should be, maybe you want
to test if PC-Cillin is capable of detecting eicar from a
Hello Clive,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 06:50:15 + GMT (08/11/02, 13:50 +0700 GMT),
Clive Taylor wrote:
I think Gary's comments are justified. I didn't know this was the
EICAR file because NOD's plugin deletes the attachment and doesn't flag
up which virus was attempting to infest this machine
Hello Dierk,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:49:31 +0100 GMT (08/11/02, 17:49 +0700 GMT),
Dierk Haasis wrote:
BTW, your last sig cookie was a bit ... racy, wasn't it.
That depends *entirely* on your phantasy. I cannot help it if you have
a dirty mind... ;-)
--
Cheers,
Thomas.
Moderator der deutschen
Friday, 11/8/2002, 8:32 AM
Hi Ochrid,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, at 16:34:05 [GMT +0100] (which was 7:34 AM where I live)
you wrote about: 'e33 . not caught by AVG'
O But I would like AVG to warn me *before* I save something to
O disc. (with bugbears and its off spring I was always properly
O warned
Hi Thomas,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:08:47 +0700
Thomas Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ask PC-Cillin :-) My AVG w/ TB!-plugin caught it :-)
Seems your scanning ain't this effective as it should be, maybe you
want to test if PC-Cillin is capable of detecting eicar from a file
by saving the
Hi Dierk,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:29:45 +0100
Dierk Haasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take care,
John
From shows Roland and it is signed by John?
Must be the template not changed to reflect a 'personal style' like ones
own name :-/
Default settings, not having a look at it ...
'Windows
Friday, November 8, 2002, 2:40:24 AM, John wrote in message
mid:4154599662.20021107214024;verizon.net
J It was obviously a mistake. I have been sending it to myself, for
J testing purposes and inadvertently sent it to the wrong address.
J My apologies to all.
No problem here John - just went to
Hello Peter,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:48:04 +0100 GMT (08/11/02, 23:48 +0700 GMT),
Peter Palmreuther wrote:
So your Plugin seems not to work as intendet or ain't properly
configured.
It is not a plug-in, and it used to work as expected (i.e. advise of
any viruses while downloading mail).
If
Bats-
NOD32 (not the plugin) also caught the test virus in digest mode. As
did Norton, even with virus definitions not up-to-date.
-Mark Wieder
Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2
--
Current version is 1.61 |
O But I would like AVG to warn me *before* I save something to
O disc. (with bugbears and its off spring I was always properly
O warned).
Paul I use AVG and it gave me a pop-up notification of the virus and
Paul isolated it.
thanks for responding, Paul, but it gets more worrying:
you and
Hi Allie,
On Friday, November 8, 2002 06:45 your local time, which was 03:45 my
local time, Allie Martin wrote;
MM This is a problem in The Bat!, not in plugin or AVG. Nested
MM messages are not correctly checked, because antivirus plugin have
MM not full message for checking. This was already
Hello Ochrid,
On Friday, November 8, 2002, 1:09:49 PM, you wrote:
O I would almost ask John to send me the eicar again...
You email it to yourself at
www.info-techs.com/eicar.shtml
--
Patrick G.
Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600
Hi,
Friday, November 8, 2002, 11:48:34 AM, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:47:57 +0700
Thomas Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
eicar.com
Why did my PC-Cillin6 with Real-Time Scan enabled not pick it up?
Ask PC-Cillin :-) My AVG w/ TB!-plugin caught it :-)
Seems your
Hi All,
On 8 Nov 2002 19:09:49 (my local time 10:09:49), Ochrid wrote
(in mid:1991142472.20021108190949;xs4all.nl)
So I wonder why I didn't get a pop-up!
Like you, the AVG didn't warn me upon receiving the eicar test file
last night.
It turns out that the AVG plug in is not activiated.
Go
Friday, November 8, 2002, 10:25:56 AM, Marck wrote in message
mid:711723508.20021108102556;silverstones.com
MDP The limit has been 40kb and I have just dropped it to 25kb (which
MDP should be enough for most of us). That wouldn't have stopped the
MDP eicar test (at on 3kb it's pretty lean) but
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Hi Anne,
9-Nov-2002, 02:52 Anne [A] in
mid:15812217495.20021109025228;gmx.co.uk said:
MDP The limit has been 40kb and I have just dropped it to 25kb
MDP (which should be enough for most of us). That wouldn't have
MDP stopped the eicar test (at on
Hello Scott,
--
Best regards,
John
eicar.com
Description: Binary data
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:14:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, John wrote:
Hello Scott,
I would like to know what kind of idiot you are, by not only sending an
attachment to this list, but also sending the eicar test virus. I mean,
do you really have any brains. There are some people who would think
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On Thursday, November 07, 2002, John wrote...
Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed.
Warning: Please read the VirusWarning.txt attachment(s) for more
information.
lol... I don't think you're meant to send it to the list
Hello Jonathan,
It was obviously a mistake. I have been sending it to myself, for
testing purposes and inadvertently sent it to the wrong address.
My apologies to all.
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 9:36:31 PM, you wrote:
JA -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
JA Hash: SHA1
JA On Thursday, November
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On Thursday, November 07, 2002, Gary wrote...
Hello Scott,
I would like to know what kind of idiot you are, by not only sending
an attachment to this list, but also sending the eicar test virus. I
mean, do you really have any brains. There are
Hi John,
On Thursday, November 7, 2002 21:14 your local time, (Friday, 07:59 my
local time), you [J] wrote:
eicar.com
Thanks for the surprise drill with Eicar John ! Next time send out a
real and less conspicuous one ;)
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be well,
Sudip Pokhrel |/\
Kathmandu - NP
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 9:40:24 PM, you wrote:
J Hello Jonathan,
J It was obviously a mistake. I have been sending it to myself, for
J testing purposes and inadvertently sent it to the wrong address.
J My apologies to all.
snip
Not a problem here, thanks for the wake up call. Glad to see
Attention!
It seems you have got a virus on your machine!
Please make sure you have the latest update of your virus scanner
and check all your files right away!
Take care,
Scott Johnson
Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information:
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, 9:51 PM, you wrote:
LY Not a problem here, thanks for the wake up call. Glad to see Norton
LY and ZoneAlarm both jump all over it. More fun than the jerk who just
LY sent me Klez.
AVG found it, no problem ;)
--
Paul
Using The Bat! v1.62/Beta7 on Windows XP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
'Lo John,
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:14:23 -0500 your time, you authored this:
J ALERT!!!
J This e-mail contained one or more infected files.
J The following attachments were infected and have been repaired:
J -none-
J The following infected
Hello Sudip,
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:27:08 +0545 GMT (08/11/02, 09:42 +0700 GMT),
Sudip Pokhrel wrote:
eicar.com
Thanks for the surprise drill with Eicar John ! Next time send out a
real and less conspicuous one ;)
Why did my PC-Cillin6 with Real-Time Scan enabled not pick it up?
--
Hello Quin,
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:04:00 -0700 GMT (08/11/02, 10:04 +0700 GMT),
Quin Selman wrote:
Attention!
Can we just do away with automated replies? They have never been
anything else but a nuisance. Sure you can do a lot with TB, but this
is a feature I'd like to see permanently disabled.
E-Mail Message
~~
From: Thomas Fernandez
Date: Thursday, November 07, 2002 at 8:47 PM
Subject: e33
_
TF Hello Sudip,
TF On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:27:08 +0545 GMT (08/11/02, 09:42 +0700 GMT),
TF Sudip Pokhrel wrote
08 November 2002, 02:36, you wrote:
JA No offence, but don't you think the attitude is a little rude? I mean
JA it could have just been a mess up with a folder template... A mistake
JA that probably everybody makes every now and again (hence Marck's
JA warnings).
I think Gary's comments are
Hello Clive
Thank you for your email dated Friday, November 8, 2002, 6:50:15 AM, in which you
wrote:
CT NOD's plugin ...doesn't flag up which virus was attempting to infest
CT this machine
This is one of the reasons I don't use the plug-in. It's immediately
obvious if you use NOD32 'as is'.
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Hash: SHA1
On Friday, November 08, 2002, Clive Taylor wrote...
JA No offence, but don't you think the attitude is a little rude? I
JA mean it could have just been a mess up with a folder template...
JA A mistake that probably everybody makes every now and again
08 November 2002, 07:07, you wrote:
CT NOD's plugin ...doesn't flag up which virus was attempting to infest
CT this machine
WM This is one of the reasons I don't use the plug-in. It's immediately
WM obvious if you use NOD32 'as is'.
You're right. It was a good test and the plugin is now
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