Testing Anti-Virus

Davheili · 2002/02/16

Is there any way to test if your AV software to see if it's working properly?

Many years ago AV manufacturers came up with a standard AV test file that would give a positive if found, but it was really nothing but a short line of text. Does this still work? And if it does, what is the test string?

Admin. · 2002/02/16

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

It is also short and simple - in fact, it consists entirely of printable ASCII characters, so that it can easily be created with a regular text editor. Any anti-virus product which supports the test file should "detect" it in any file which starts with the following 68 characters:

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

To keep things simple, the file uses only upper case letters, digits and punctuation marks, and does not include spaces. The only thing to watch out for when typing in the test file is that the third character is the capital letter "O ", not the digit zero.
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Davheili · 2002/02/17

Thanks. Thats exactly what I was looking for.

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