benhenry
10-28-2003, 01:33 AM
I called my ISP and told them that I needed to send myself a virus.
"What?" the support tech replied.
So I told him the whole story about my aunts and their pies and I really needed to send a few viruses to myself, but don't worry.
I think he did worry though, and I was soon transferred to another easily upset support tech. They kept passing me around and asking for my user name a lot until I finally talked to someone who pretended to understand and she nervously explained that they couldn't "turn off" the virus scanning for just one person. And she wanted to know my user name anyway.
Then she surprised me by offering to personally send the viruses to me if I could explain just exactly what was necessary. I pointed her to the EICAR site and described how the virus should be packaged in four different flavors. She was wonderful about the whole thing, and I was very happy.
I got off the phone, reconnected to the internet, and checked my mail frequently. The supervisor at my ISP was true to her word and sent me the viruses in exactly the four configurations I had asked for.
My "big" virus scanner caught and detected the three forms it should have, and I was convinced that the viruses were correctly read into the dbx files by OE. So now I was ready to test my batchfile. I called my ISP back on the phone.
I wish I hadn't been such a bonehead and forgotten to write her name down.
"I need to talk to the very nice woman who sent me the viruses," I said. "I need her to do it one more time."
"What?" the support tech replied.
And they started asking me for my user name a whole bunch of times again. Eventually I got back to the very nice woman and she agreed to send me the viruses one more time. I think I caused her some trouble there, because she had to do everything over again, having trashed her copies of the emails already.
But she started to like me again when I pointed out that it was Friday afternoon and I could be her perfect excuse for not getting anything done the rest of the day.
"Thanks, Ben," she said.
"That's ok," I said. "I like to help whenever I can."
I disabled my real-time anti-virus scanner and waited eagerly to get some viruses from that very nice woman.
The viruses came in the mail. I started my batchfile. The debug code I had inserted showed that the inbox.dbx file had been successfully collected. The "second string" virus scanner had successfully received the proper commands to begin scanning.
Thanks for being so patient and reading this far if you are here. But it is almost 3:00 am here and I need one more break before I can finish. The results and some implications; and maybe some conclusions will follow:
An email virus scanning test. Part Five. The results. (http://www.mypcclinic.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1742)
"What?" the support tech replied.
So I told him the whole story about my aunts and their pies and I really needed to send a few viruses to myself, but don't worry.
I think he did worry though, and I was soon transferred to another easily upset support tech. They kept passing me around and asking for my user name a lot until I finally talked to someone who pretended to understand and she nervously explained that they couldn't "turn off" the virus scanning for just one person. And she wanted to know my user name anyway.
Then she surprised me by offering to personally send the viruses to me if I could explain just exactly what was necessary. I pointed her to the EICAR site and described how the virus should be packaged in four different flavors. She was wonderful about the whole thing, and I was very happy.
I got off the phone, reconnected to the internet, and checked my mail frequently. The supervisor at my ISP was true to her word and sent me the viruses in exactly the four configurations I had asked for.
My "big" virus scanner caught and detected the three forms it should have, and I was convinced that the viruses were correctly read into the dbx files by OE. So now I was ready to test my batchfile. I called my ISP back on the phone.
I wish I hadn't been such a bonehead and forgotten to write her name down.
"I need to talk to the very nice woman who sent me the viruses," I said. "I need her to do it one more time."
"What?" the support tech replied.
And they started asking me for my user name a whole bunch of times again. Eventually I got back to the very nice woman and she agreed to send me the viruses one more time. I think I caused her some trouble there, because she had to do everything over again, having trashed her copies of the emails already.
But she started to like me again when I pointed out that it was Friday afternoon and I could be her perfect excuse for not getting anything done the rest of the day.
"Thanks, Ben," she said.
"That's ok," I said. "I like to help whenever I can."
I disabled my real-time anti-virus scanner and waited eagerly to get some viruses from that very nice woman.
The viruses came in the mail. I started my batchfile. The debug code I had inserted showed that the inbox.dbx file had been successfully collected. The "second string" virus scanner had successfully received the proper commands to begin scanning.
Thanks for being so patient and reading this far if you are here. But it is almost 3:00 am here and I need one more break before I can finish. The results and some implications; and maybe some conclusions will follow:
An email virus scanning test. Part Five. The results. (http://www.mypcclinic.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1742)