Tia,
Doctor9fan.
Best answer by CameronP
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View originalI was being lazy in my first reply (had not had my mornin coffee yet...) Your reply got me thinking, and looking. You get the Kudo's for it as I would not have looked without your reply!@ wrote:
Great article David, thanks. :D I like to be briefly factual (in other words lazy) but that necessitates someone's interaction who elaborates my facts. :D
Unfortunately the Kindle cannot use the Googleplay store as Amazon have their own store.@ wrote:
There are several android apps in the google play/market store that simulate the eicar test file.
This article mentions 2 (EICAR Anti-virus Test by eXtorian, and Antivirus TESTFILE)
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2011/03/5-android-antivirus-apps-comapred-find-out-which-ones-are-worth-having.html
and a third one is called Zoner AntiVirus Test.
Yes I tested Webroot mobile premier on my Kindle Fire HD.@ wrote:
If I understood correctly, you tested the eicar files on your android device with WSA Premium installed on, didn't you? Eicar test files aren't intended for testing on an Android device. However on Windows platform they are detected by WSA.
@DavidP1970 wrote:Yes I'm limited to Amazon's own app store & btw I'm a she not a he. :)
Virtualpb,
Very good points and information. The original post appears to have not used the Andoid Market version of the files as he mentions .txt and .zip These will not be detected.
I would be very interested to hear what the results are when the Android ported versions of the test file are. And no.. I did not know about the Android versions - in my quick reference lookup earlier I did not run into it and I needless to say have not run it on my own mobile devices.
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Yes I'm limited to Amazon's own app store & btw I'm a she not a he. :)I tend to think that other Android security solutions have flagged those files just solely based on their names which are very popular being the test files. As I said and David explained a bit more the Eicar test files cannot work properly on Android platform, it means that they cannot be properly analyzed by security solutions. It is like taking WSA for Android on a Windows machine and blaming him for failing on the test files.
As I've said in another reply other av software caught the eicar test files so it surprises me that this doesn't.
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