On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 10:14:10 +0200, Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> > wrote: > >Marc Haber wrote: > >> Because it makes debugging anti-virus software harder, and forces > >> maintainers of anti-virus packages to have their own means of > >> obtaining eicar.com for testing purposes > >Debugging anti-virus software should be done by the maintainers thereof. > >Why would a user need this? > A local administrator could use that file to make sure that his > security measures are properly in place. > >Having an installer just because some organization is too lazy to provide a > >license with a 68 bytes is plainly wrong > These 68 bytes are very useful. So there should be a way to obtain > them. The Debian way Why can't you include a download script in the existing anti-virus package that this is supposed to be useful to? Why is saying "want the test data? Run 'apt-get install eicar-installer'" better than saying "want the test data? Run 'wget http://eicar.com/...' or "run /usr/lib/anti-virus/eicar-download"? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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