Antivirus Testing

When testing antivirus software, you do not want to use actual malicious code as it could pose a risk to the environment.

Therefore, there is a standardized way of testing an antivirus program. This is an EICAR file.

You can download an EICAR file from eicar.org or you can create a file on the test system with the following contents:

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