EICAR Standard Antivirus Test File Information

A few words about the Eicar Standard AntiVirus Test File

The Eicar Standard AntiVirus Test File is a combined effort by antivirus vendors throughout the world and EICAR organisation to come up with one standard by which customers can verify their antivirus installations.

To test your installation, you would copy the following line into its own file and name it EICAR.COM.

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X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
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When done, the resulting file will have either 68 or 70 bytes.

When avast scans this file, it will report finding EICAR Test-NOT virus!!.

It is very important to know that THIS IS NOT A VIRUS! However, users often have the need to test that their installations work properly. The antivirus industry, through the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, has adopted this standard to facilitate this need.

Please delete the file when installation testing is completed so that unsuspecting users are not unnecessarily alarmed.

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