Hi,

The weird part is that Avira and other Antivirus correctly are able to
detect EICAR in any case, having other characters before and/or after the
EICAR string.
Thank you,




El jue, 3 mar 2022 a las 12:27, Tuomo Soini via clamav-users (<
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>) escribió:

> On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 12:35:40 -0300
> Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
> >  Hi,
> >
> > I'm using clamd to make a large data scanning using INSTREAM (data it
> > is not available as files I could send to clamd). If I send only one
> > INSTREAM chunk with EICAR inside it is correctly detected, but if I
> > send several chunks plus EICAR string, it is not detected.
>
> > Does it make any sense? I will appreciate any help.
>
> You miss the most important point. Eicar test file is very strictly
> defined at https://www.eicar.org/?page_id=3950 - it very clearly
> defines which extra characters are allowed after 68 characters string.
>
> "The first 68 characters is the known string. It may be optionally
> appended by any combination of whitespace characters with the total
> file length not exceeding 128 characters. The only whitespace
> characters allowed are the space character, tab, LF, CR, CTRL-Z. To
> keep things simple the file uses only upper case letters, digits and
> punctuation marks, and does not include spaces. The only thing to watch
> out for when typing in the test file is that the third character is the
> capital letter „O“, not the digit zero."
>
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