Hi Gang, And just FYI, this caused several email servers to reject this message as having a virus, so some of our readers will never see this message , except as shown in this reply :-)
Marlene -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold B Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:41 PM To: PCWorks Subject: PCWorks: Testing your v*irus scan Hello again, I saw this in Lockergnome.com, and thought I'd share it with you. To test your v*irus scan, "Create a text file with notepad and type the line of garbage text below exactly as it appears. Save and then run your v*irus scanner over it. Does it work? If not, get a new v*irus scanner. This is the EICAR test v*irus. It is quite harmless yet is a good test to see if your AV software is up to scratch. You may need to rename your .txt file to a .com, .exe or .bat extension for your scanner to grab it." ***DELETED BY LIST OWNER****** I tried it and it worked. My question is: WHY does this work? ... Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
