Re: [Exim] Exim/Clam AV Testing

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Author: Dennis Davis
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To: Kevin M. Barrett
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim/Clam AV Testing
>To: exim-users@???
>From: "Kevin M. Barrett" <kmb@???>
>Subject: [Exim] Exim/Clam AV Testing
>Sender: exim-users-admin@???
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:40:10 -0400
>
>         Please excuse this question, but googles and searching the
>Archive have failed to return a result.  There is a web site out
>there that I can go to to have "bad" email sent to my server to
>verify that my mail server is protected.  Does anyone know the URL?

>
>         I have just updated to 0.75.2 of ClamAV and think that it
>may not be working quite right ...


You should be able to do this yourself using the EICAR standard
anti-virus test file. For example, see:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/eicar.html

for details. It's easy to construct an email containing this virus.
This is what I use when testing an upgrade of my anti-virus set up.