From: MEB on
On 02/24/2010 10:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "MEB" <MEB-not-here(a)hotmail.com>
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> | On 02/24/2010 10:01 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
>>> From: "MEB" <MEB-not-here(a)hotmail.com>
>
>>>>> Sure looks like a mangled EICAR which is an ASCII encoding scheme.
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>>> | So was it a question, an attack, or what?
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>>> | Anyone bother to translate ALL of it?
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>>> EICAR test string as subject. :-)
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> | Ah, okay, couldn't tell if that was just something from within it or
> | was the actual... so likely a question or request for help then, or
> | maybe a discussion/question ABOUT the hack?
> | Never mind I guess, just speculation anyway...
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> | For those interested:
> | http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
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> Just a way that FTR could put this thread back on topic in a "different"
> way.
>

Yeah, I got that part, at least I/we found the tie-in for something
[the original post and some of the extra] that appeared out of nowhere.

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