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Message-ID: <1080193388.18450.29.camel@Stargate>
From: nodialtone at comcast.net (Byron Copeland)
Subject: Re: text

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 00:19, Bennett Todd wrote:
> If you want to really enjoy the pleasure of idiot false-positives
> from weak virus-scanners, just use this as your .sig, or better yet
> bodge it into a header:
> 
> 	X5O!P%@AP[4\\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}\$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!\$H+H*
> 
> I did that for a good while, turned up no false positives from folks
> whose software was clueful, and I have to say surprisingly few in
> any case. False-positiving on sig-matches in normal text bodies is
> just plain rare. He says. Now I'll probably be mowed down for this
> post:-).
> 

Yeah, been there done that.  Let's not get into the political
battlefield of who should be on who's side of which vendor is better
that the other.  It's not our fault that there is so much fog on the
battle field that they can't manage to see their through it.

-b

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