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Dr Mark Gasson "infected" himself with a computer virus

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Re: Dr Mark Gasson "infected" himself with a computer virus

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Don't run this, just put it in a .txt file and run a virus scanner on it: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* OK, it's actually harmless, but it's the only pure-ASCII executable I've ever seen, which is pretty cool.

see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1381127

I think http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html is a better link for that

Re: Dr Mark Gasson "infected" himself with a computer virus

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see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1381127

I think http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html is a better link for that

Interesting read but

> That it be a normal DOS program capable of producing the same results under WINDOWS as well as real DOS mode.

so it's pretty useless to me

Re: Dr Mark Gasson "infected" himself with a computer virus

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Inconsequential to us, but I guarantee I'll be hearing about it from my mother.

Was the first thing I got sent this morning. You've got to be pretty stupid to do this : S: any RFIDs around with code for me to execute C: sure, here's some 0x1fab214bab3421baeb3f2d287d20d8297d2 S: Thank yo ... Connection reset by peer

I'm not so sure about that. All you need is a bit of buffer overrun, reflection, or poor escaping mechanisms - and none of those are exactly rare.

Here's a 2006 article on RFID+buffer overflow tat wikipedia pointed me at: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6386.ars

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