Use of EICAR AV test string in signatures

[jd.mubix at gmail.com (Rob Fuller)]

Experiment over. thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience. If, as you say,
you combed your spam and found the email, you should have known who to talk
to. But I understand the detriment to the list, as there might be others
also missing out.

Oh, and that AV you are using, technically shouldn't be finding EICAR in
non-binary form, if I remember the purpose of it. I could be wrong.

--
Rob Fuller | Mubix
Room362.com | Hak5.org


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jim Goltz <jim.goltz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd just like to point out to anyone currently doing this that using the
> EICAR anti-virus test string in your email signature file, while moderately
> funny, causes all of your messages to be trapped by my AV filter, as well as
> any replies that don't edit out the test string.
>
> I'm tired of combing through my spam/AV filter looking for such messages in
> case they contain something of interest, so from now on I'm just not going
> to bother to read them.
>
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> Jim Goltz <Jim.Goltz at gmail.com>
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