Re: eicar_test string

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From: Ingeborg (a_at_b.invalid)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: 9 Jan 2005 14:48:52 GMT

"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in
news:#tA3esj9EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl:

> Now isn't that nice. A utility versioned back in May 03' that has no
> means of imitating any threat in 2005. Any person who uses it to test
> there AV and feels safe after getting the results is in for a rude
> awakening if they don't keep their AV up-to-date.
>

That's not the purpose. It's just for testing _if_ your AV just does
anything. When you install a virusscanner, how will you know if the
installation succeeded? Eicar.

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