The definition of Eicar. Was: Question for Bitdefender Users

[Kevin Spicer]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 21:33, Jason Balicki wrote:

>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.  :)

I didn't know that, perhaps I could invoke the monkeys & typewriters
defence? no?


>Sorry for being pedantic.

On the contrary, thank you, I learnt something which will be of use to
me next time I feel like being a smart arse <wink>






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