A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

I downloaded the testfile from didier stevens eicar.pdf that has the eicar virust test integrated in a PDF file.

I send it to Virustotal to have an idea if the file would be recognised as such, keeping the same name. It was only detected by one antivirus.

What I saw on my own computer is that the antivirus only detected it when I opened it. So I could download the file and if I could open the file before the startup of the antivirus than I would have free game.....

But than I thought, maybe the firms will say that virustotal is not the same scan as they would do, so I tried several of their services as well on their own site

http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus

and to be sure we used another service http://www.novirusthanks.org

so is it now clear why PDF files seem so interesting as transport ?