[bearone2]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I gave it a try.
I downloaded the file but nothing happened untill I ran the mouse over it and a warning popped up.
Here's a screen shot.

sorry but it makes no sense that it's picked up in notepad but not word.

i've used eicar for a long time and it's picked up right away by my av, no matter how i dress it up.

[Stoner]

Wasn't caught in Wordpad, either.

[knight_47]

Originally Posted by bearone2

sorry but it makes no sense that it's picked up in notepad but not word.

i've used eicar for a long time and it's picked up right away by my av, no matter how i dress it up.

but notepad can be used to write almost anything. A html file, a php file, a batch file, css, etc... You can't write these files in word.

What AV did you use for it to get picked up in a .doc file??

Thank's again for the screenshot Stoner.

[WhitPhil]

Wordpad and Word are wrapping other characters into the string of text if you save as a DOC file.

But, if you save as a TXT file, the AVs will detect it.

[bearone2]

Originally Posted by knight_47

but notepad can be used to write almost anything. A html file, a php file, a batch file, css, etc... You can't write these files in word.

What AV did you use for it to get picked up in a .doc file??

Thank's again for the screenshot Stoner.

symantec

when i started using it sometime back it was a much shorter sequence of characters.

the string is text with characters.

[Wolfeymole]

Ok let me get this right.
If I copied and pasted that code from the first post into Notepad and save it as a .txt file the av should pick it up yes?
I run AVG free edition version 7.1.0.406 and it found nothing, is it me or...............?

[knight_47]

Yes it should, but it's important to make sure you add only, the bolded text, nothing less, and nothing more. 1 letter will render the code useless.

[Wolfeymole]

Here is a screenshot of the notepad file which I saved.
What might be the problem because as I say it found zero.

[knight_47]

Originally Posted by Wolfeymole

Here is a screenshot of the notepad file which I saved.
What might be the problem because as I say it found zero.

That's really wierd, because Stoner is using AVG 7, and his copy found it.

Have you tried right clicking the file, and then click "Scan for viruses"

[Kenny94]

Here is a screenshot of the notepad file which I saved.
What might be the problem because as I say it found zero

It should work with AVG Anti-Virus. We played with this a few months ago with no problems..

http://forums.techguy.org/tech-tips-...-software.html

[Wolfeymole]

I right clicked and scanned Knight and sure enough it found it.
Vis:

[valis]

avg found it straight away last time we did this.

[WhitPhil]

Originally Posted by Wolfeymole

I right clicked and scanned Knight and sure enough it found it.
Vis:

Which would appear to mean that your AV is not continually active.

Or, you have told it not to monitor TXT files. Which, is ok since a virus can't nestle it's way into a TXT file in such a way as to infect a system.

[ferrija1]

Remember this knight?

http://webhelp.xenweb.net/EICAR.zip.exe

[knight_47]

Originally Posted by ferrija1

Remember this knight?

http://webhelp.xenweb.net/EICAR.zip.exe

hehe, that was cool!