Testing with TestVirus

Vladan Nikolic vladan at NIKOLIC.HOMEIP.NET
Fri May 20 22:56:39 IST 2005


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>The short answer is that it is a totally artificial test, being marketed
>by a company whose product happens to catch this "problem". This has
>never been exploited in the wild anyway, they made it up.

I don't know if there is something like that in the wild, but I know that some other mail security software successfully scanned attachment hiden from MailScanner with this mime boundary. And how can we be sure that in future this won't become a problem.

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