Max file size

Matt Kettler mkettler at evi-inc.com
Fri Jan 4 15:41:28 GMT 2008


Randal, Phil wrote:
> All of which is pretty pointless because a large file with the EICAR
> string attached at the end is no longer the EICAR "virus", IMHO, as the
> EICAR test file is defined to be 68 bytes long, no more, no less.
> 

Actually, it can be padded out to 128 bytes with whitespace, but no more.

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The first 68 characters is the known string. It may be optionally appended by 
any combination of whitespace characters with the total file length not 
exceeding 128 characters.
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Which is straight from the mouth of EICAR itself:

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm




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