On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 19:55, Pat Lashley wrote:
> Ok, I'll bite. What's an EICAR test string? Where would it come
> from and what would it be used for?
Basically a small DOS COM file which is recognised by the vast majority
of virus scanners as a virus (it isn't). It has the dubious distinction
of being representable in 7 bit ASCII (so can go in unencoded mail), and
in this case caused a 1001 mail scanners to send me bounces for mail
including it. Its used for testing virus scanning systems.
See
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
Nigel.
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