It set off plenty of other alarms. >:)
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Dustin Miller, President
WebFusionDevelopmentIncorporated
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Seawood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 8:15 PM
To: Dustin Miller
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Question about UCE and also AMAVIS (EICAR ATTACHED)
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Dustin Miller wrote:
>
> Still, however -- the EICAR.COM virus goes right through. I'm attaching
the
> EICAR.COM virus to this post (it's 69 bytes) to see if it sets any other
> alarms off. That's a good way to tell who's using it. :)
Strange, it didn't set the alarm off here but when I compared the file you
attached versus the eicar file I used for testing, I noticed that you seem
to have an extra space but not return carriage.
cls@amadeus:~> cat eicar\ 2word.com
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
cls@amadeus:~> cat EICAR.COM
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H
+H*cls@amadeus:~
- cls
