On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:41:57 -0400, mm
wrote:


The file lengths are probably important
eicar.com 68 Bytes

The Rexwain version of this (text snipped) was 70 bytes long, and when
I had the AVG anti-virus program repair this file, it deleted all 70
bytes, because they are the string that the anti-virus programs alert
on, and it left me with a 0 byte file.

Maybe I have the prefeerences set a little differently on this
installation of AVG from what I used before.

eicar.com.txt 68 Bytes
eicar_com.zip 184 Bytes
eicarcom2.zip 308 Bytes

As long as they are this short, there's no room for actual virus
stuff, just this string that all AV programs list as virus-like.