Testing Antivirus Software
You can verify that Antivirus works properly with the help of a special test file, known as EICAR Standard Anti-virus Test file (EICAR stands for the European Institute of Computer Anti-virus Research). This is a dummy file, which is detected by any other anti-virus products. No need to worry, because this file is not a real virus. All that EICAR.COM does when executed is to display the text ‘EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE’ and exit.
However, the file can be created using any text editor, provided the file is saved in standard MS-DOS ASCII format and is 68 bytes long. It might also be 70 bytes if the editor puts a CR/LF at the end. The file must contain the following single line:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
Save the file to any name with COM extension, for example EICAR.COM. From now on, you can use this file to see what happens when Antivirus detects a real virus.
Testing Antivirus’s Anti-spam Feature
Verify if Security Software is working with the GTUBE test. The test consists in entering the following line in the body of an e-mail.
“XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL* C.34X”
Antivirus must tag as spam any message that contains this string. The string must be reproduced on a single line.
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