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In one of the comments in that article: "I can't wait until someone legally changes their name to one of these sequences and we find out that all sorts of gover
by cjg 12y ago
In one of the comments in that article: "I can't wait until someone legally changes their name to one of these sequences and we find out that all sorts of government databases didn't have functioning backups..."
- cnvogel 12y agoI think you could put the "EICAR Test String" easily in a lot of databases, maybe as the answer to a security question, a special "delivery instruction"... http://www.eicar.org/86-0-Intended-use.html http://www.eicar.org/86-0-Intended-use.html It's detected by almost any antivirus product, on my work computer the corporate antivirus immediately quarantines a file with this content. X 5 O ! P % @ A P [ 4 \ P Z X 5 (...)
- maaarghk 12y agoNot EICAR because that has to be at the start of the file. But some other signature, sure.