Email virus test

This may have been posted before,but some may have missed it.Nod 32 beta got most in realtime,then some more when executed.

Test your email account's anti-virus protection by sending a harmless "EICAR" virus attachment to your mail server. The EICAR test virus is completely safe and contains no viral code.

http://www.webmail.us/testvirus

 

I made the test and sent all those 26 test mails to myself: I was very satisfied to notice that my AV program F-Prot for Win 3.16b noticed them all right after they dropped to my inbox. I did not even have to click them to open messages.

 

My ISP blocked all but #24 and #25 which don't actually contain the test virus. Very efficient

My free backup e-mail from a different ISP let the lot through. Linux then asked me what application I'd like to open eicar.com with when I tried to manually run it

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Do you have to pay extra for this virus protection from your ISP?

 

No - it's an option I can enable/disable when I log in to the web interface in the members area for my ISP (sort of an account control panel). It enables anti-spam and anti-virus checking and can be set for each e-mail address provided by them (I'm allowed 20 in total). They obviously have AV software running on their e-mail servers.

Not every ISP has these types of services though. My old dialup ISP never had anything like that. I've noticed before that some ISP's give you a lot more for your money than others. Personally, I would of thought that every ISP should be running antispam and antivirus software on their servers (especially e-mail servers), but they don't.

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