Hello all, Sunday, June 9, 2002, Don Taylor wrote: > I'm a bit confused. I'm running AVG, and it's doing *really* well at > trapping the Eicar test virus (maybe too well ;). Whenever I click on > the .com version to attach it to an e-mail, the low-level portion of > AVG turns my screen black and gives me what looks like a DOS-generated > message asking if I should enable access. Even if I say I want to > enable access, AVG won't permit the attachment to happen. (Don't think > it's the plugin catching this, because the same process happens if I > try to open the .com file with a text editor.) This is a good thing, > but it's preventing me from testing incoming e-mail.
> But when I try to use the link Oleg Titov shared earlier > (http://www.aleph-tec.com/eicar/) to send the Eicar test virus, The > Bat! with the plugin installed and configured doesn't even (excuse the > pun) bat an eye. I'm keeping attachments with messages. And at this > point, I'm less confident the plugin is really working than when I > started. Any ideas? I tested this actually and plugin displayed warning for every message with EICAR from Oleg's page. -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.ipex.cz Using the best The Bat! 1.60q under the worst Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A AMD ThunderBird 1,2 GHz, 256 MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
