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It is possible to make a pure-ASCII executable. http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html


I don't see how you could do this for PE files, which would be required to pull this off on x64 (since you can't run 16-bit binaries like .COMs). There are several fields in the headers that require non-ASCII values.


With PowerShell or WSH?


This link is very interesting. I thought incorrectly that it was only a random string. You should submit the link.




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