Myparty Strangeness

[Alex Short]

Both messages got flagged w/ a virus warning and 'eicar.com is not a virus'.
Now i'm even more perplexed :)

Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Phillips" <nwp at LEMON-COMPUTING.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: Myparty Strangeness


> 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?
> --
> Nick Phillips -- nwp at lemon-computing.com
> Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.
>