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EICAR test virus MIME attachment text
Posted by Dave in Uncategorized on November 15, 2012
This test virus was developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) to provide an easy (and safe!) way to test whether your anti-virus software is working.
The text in this post is encoded as if it was delivered from your MUA/MTA to a SMTP server.
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Text goes here. There is an attachment to this message containing a Base-64 encoded copy of the EICAR test virus. Hopefully it will be difficult for you to get this message and attachment accepted by a mail server.
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WDVPIVAlQEFQWzRcUFpYNTQoUF4pN0NDKTd9JEVJQ0FSLVNUQU5EQVJELUFOVElWSVJVUy1URVNU
LUZJTEUhJEgrSCoNCg==
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