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GMail — Your Local Virus Smasher

Written by Jonathan Dingman
07/21/2006 10:20 ET - Filed under Products

Submitted by Caleb:

I was playing around with the eicar anti virus test string and I attempted to send an email in gmail with that string in a .txt attachment. I’d never actually seen what happens when you try to send a virus, so i thought it might interest you. I tried sending a virus to my gmail account with another account and it didn’t go through (nor was it returned). I tried it with .txt, .jpg, and .wmv extensions. (via)

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