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Been there, done that, and Windows feels the need to delete such files from _flash drives_ you dare to attach to the machine.

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This is amusing to me. Is there a list of extra naughty filenames? How invasive is the scan? If I create a new file with a cursed word, with this get locked into virus-scanner purgatory or is the deep locking only for external media? Will it get mad if I mount a CD full of virus names?

Don't have too much fun with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

Do have way too much fun with EICAR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo

This guy put the EICAR test string into a barcode and started to scan it on various systems, with rather funny effects.

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