(neuer Testvirus-Standard ab 1.5.03, 15.05.2003 19:25:59 CEDT)

Symantec Security Response is making it's Security Alerts available to other
web sites, to include these alerts on your web site go to the following page
to configure a script that you can copy and paste directly into your own
html page.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/cgi-bin/syndicate.cgi

On May 1, 2003, revised standards for use of the EICAR test file will go
into effect. The test file is not mailcious and does not replicate, it is
often used to test anti-virus installations. The first 68 characters will be
the string to scan for in the file.  It may be appended by any combination
of white space characters with the total file length not exceeding 128
characters. The only white space characters allowed are the space character,
tab, LF, CR, CTRL-Z.

The EICAR web site will be updated with the new standard on May 1st.

http://www.eicar.org/

I expect it will be a while before all anti-virus products enable detection
for the new standard, there is no cause for alarm if a particular product
does not detect the new test file(s).