Python and Opswat

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I need to trigger my AntiVirus (McAfee) when accessing a test-virus URL (http://eicar.org/download/eicar.com) via python. If I use IE, Firefox or even wget for windows, the AntiVirus detects that a virus URL was accessed, which is the expected behavior. However, when using urllib or urllib2, the virus URL is successfully accessed and the AntiVirus does not detect that a "bad" URL has been reached. Has anyone tried something similar?

did you try writing the output to disk?

tMC
– tMC

2011-10-06 19:43:40 +00:00
Commented Oct 6, 2011 at 19:43 — tMC
– tMC, Commented Oct 6, 2011 at 19:43

tMC · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-06 19:59:11Z

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Write the output to disk- the virus scanner will see it then.

answered Oct 6, 2011 at 19:59

tMC

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