[Avcheck] eicar.com.txt not detected?

Michael Tokarev mjt@tls.msk.ru
Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:20:33 +0300


Piotr KUCHARSKI wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Playing with new setup of AVP + avcheck ( + postfix) I discovered
> such attachments:
> 
> 1.
>    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>    Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="eicar.com.txt"
> 
>    X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
> 
> 2.
>    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2;
>     name="eicar.com"
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>    Content-Disposition: inline;
>     filename="eicar.com"
> 
>    X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
> 
> pass through kavdaemon/scanner undetected. Any ideas?

Change text/plain to application/octet-stream.  There is no need to detect
eicar if comes as text.

Regards,
 Michael.