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Manipulated zip file

This email tests a common weakness of virus scanners. It contains a zip archive in which the management information has been manipulated so that the uncompressed files seems to contain 0 bytes. While most of the zip tools can still extract such files, a lot of scanners do not correctly investigate them. This zip archive contains the benevolent demo file EICAR.COM.

The uncompressed file size was changed in the global directory of all files in this archive.

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