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From: aleph1 () SECURITYFOCUS COM (Elias Levy)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:53:05 -0800
Well it seems that EICAR attachment set off a lot of alarms. To clear things up the EICAR file is a test file used to test an antivirus basic functions are working. You can find out more about EICAR at http://www.iecar.org/. A reminder: BUGTRAQ is a vulnerability mailing list. As such some of the content posted to it can be downright dangerous. For all you know someone may post a working exploit against your mail program which will execute once you open a message. So remember to be paranoid. Some things to keep in mind: * Don't read BUGTRAQ using an HTML capable MUA. * Don't read BUGTRAQ using a scriptable MUA. * Don't read BUGTRAQ using a MIME capable MUA with a questionable mailcap file. * Don't read BUGTRAQ using "smart" MUA that interprets the message contents. * Don't trust executable attachments such as binaries or macro capable data files. * Do use an antivirus program. -- Elias Levy SecurityFocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/
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