On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Rob Fuller <[email protected]> wrote: > Experiment over. thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience. If, as you say, > you combed your spam and found the email, you should have known who to talk > to. But I understand the detriment to the list, as there might be others > also missing out. > Oh, and that AV you are using, technically shouldn't be finding EICAR in > non-binary form, if I remember the purpose of it. I could be wrong.
All of the (68) bytes in eicar.com are printable ASCII, so it would be difficult for AV to tell, without opening up the possibility of false negatives. -- Wesley McGrew http://mcgrewsecurity.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
