On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:59:31 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicar_test_file
>> 
>>    Haha, thanks Jim, I didn't know that existed. You guys are great.
> 
> Well it's a lot safer than "keeping a collection of real viruses for
> test purposes". ;-)

Depends on what you want to test.  I was using it to test virus 
interaction with software; the Eicar test file isn't particularly useful 
for that.

But that's another thing that virtualization is great for - sandboxing 
for that sort of testing.

Jim

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