The definition of Eicar. Was: Question for Bitdefender Users

Jason Balicki kodak at FRONTIERHOMEMORTGAGE.COM
Thu Sep 18 21:33:45 IST 2003


Kevin Spicer wrote:
>[eicar...] is essentially just one
>long random number.

Well, it's an executable made up of ASCII printable characters
that happens to print out "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE"
when it's run.  Which is kind of a neat hack.  And not really
random.  :)

Sorry for being pedantic.

--J(K)



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