I use Netscape Communicator's email client, Messenger.
I am not having any luck with avast! v4.7 Home Edition flagging the eicar.com files as infected.
I have sent these (
http://www.aleph-tec.com/eicar/index.php ) half dozen or so files to myself several times, and avast! is not reacting to them, at least not reacting like it should.
Having read the other recent thread on this topic, I took special care to shut off MailWasherPro (which will blacklist suspected viruses) and I also turned off ZoneAlarm Pro's Mailsafe protection.
What happens is, I see that the incoming emails are being scanned by avast!, both from the brief blinking blue systray icon and the avast! scanning messages that stack up in the lower right of my desktop.
But the eicar emails do come through intact, complete with attachments, and there is no warning, no mention of infection.
Ironically, I have the Internet Mail resident provider set to insert a note into clean messages, and also to tag for infected messages. The eicar emails all have inserted notes saying they are clean.
Additionally, I then use explorer to navigate to the Netscape program folder and right click on the User folder (that contains all emails) and scan with avast! No infections found.
My program definitions are dated 5/13/2007. I have had avast! installed for about a week. It has flagged a couple of items (old SARC emails and a false positive decompression bomb), and I see that the Virus Chest has the requisite system files in it... but no eicar files. The program appears to be working fine in all other aspects.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you.