Myparty Strangeness

Nick Phillips nwp at LEMON-COMPUTING.COM
Wed Jan 30 12:12:12 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:18:55PM -0500, Alex Short wrote:

> When someone sends me myparty, it changes myparty.yahoo.com whichever to
> AB283.dat or something along those lines.  It doesn't detect any type of
> virus either, but if i save AB283.dat then scan it, its myparty.

I've sent Alex the EICAR.COM test "virus" uuencoded in the body of the
message to see whether that gets detected. Maybe uvscan just doesn't
pick up on uuencoded stuff embedded in plain text - anybody else with uvscan
care to try it?
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Nick Phillips -- nwp at lemon-computing.com
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