Skeletor is here to help

https://lemmy.world/post/38263914

Skeletor is here to help - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Use EICAR test strings as passwords so when the password is stored as plain text the antivirus software will delete the file.

Sadly it wouldn’t work if found in a CSV file with other records:

According to EICAR’s specification the antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test string and is not more than 128 bytes long. As a result, antiviruses are not expected to raise an alarm on some other document containing the test string

They actually thought it through, huh?

For some reason that surprises me from the AV vendors