Re: EICAR signature not working

David Morton via clamav-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.user
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even when i put the string in a file by itself.  

> On Feb 17, 2025, at 1:31 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via clamav-users <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 17.02.25 19:24, David Morton via clamav-users wrote:
>> I have downloaded the test signature to three different systems,  verified to be up to date, but they all fail to find the EICAR test signature.  Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> they fail to find it where?
> according to:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
> 
>  antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test   string and is not more than 128 bytes long.
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