Bug #48887 for FProt-Client: unmasked EICAR in test data file prevents module download

Thu Aug 20 12:54:43 2009 joel [...] peshkin.net - Ticket created

Subject:	unmasked EICAR in test data file prevents module download
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:52:11 -0700 (PDT)
To:	bug-FProt-Client [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Joel Peshkin" <joel [...] peshkin.net>

FProt-Client-0.09 Perl version: n/a Ubuntu Linux When attempting to download CPAN modules, I found that corporate firewalls will locate the EICAR test virus within the .tar.gz file being downloaded and block the entire archive. [Now my network administrators think they have massive "eicar infection" on their hands!] It would prevent a lot of trouble if the test virus files in the archive were obfuscated in a way that would prevent them from being seen, probably by unpacking them into a text format from which they could be readily pack-ed back together.

Sun Aug 23 06:47:28 2009 avar [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Aug 20 12:54:43 2009, joel@peshkin.net wrote: Show quoted text

> FProt-Client-0.09 > Perl version: n/a > Ubuntu Linux > > When attempting to download CPAN modules, I found that corporate firewalls > will locate the EICAR test virus within the .tar.gz file being downloaded > and block the entire archive. [Now my network administrators think they > have massive "eicar infection" on their hands!] > > It would prevent a lot of trouble if the test virus files in the archive > were obfuscated in a way that would prevent them from being seen, probably > by unpacking them into a text format from which they could be readily > pack-ed back together.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll fix this in a future release (soon, currently on holiday).

Sun Aug 23 06:47:31 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Oct 04 06:56:59 2014 avar [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2009-08-23T06:47:28-04:00, AVAR wrote: Show quoted text

> On Thu Aug 20 12:54:43 2009, joel@peshkin.net wrote:

> > FProt-Client-0.09 > > Perl version: n/a > > Ubuntu Linux > > > > When attempting to download CPAN modules, I found that corporate firewalls > > will locate the EICAR test virus within the .tar.gz file being downloaded > > and block the entire archive. [Now my network administrators think they > > have massive "eicar infection" on their hands!] > > > > It would prevent a lot of trouble if the test virus files in the archive > > were obfuscated in a way that would prevent them from being seen, probably > > by unpacking them into a text format from which they could be readily > > pack-ed back together.

> > Thanks for the suggestion. I'll fix this in a future release (soon, > currently on holiday).

Closing this ancient bug, distro doesn't exist anymore.

Sat Oct 04 06:57:00 2014 avar [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'