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What is the European Institute For Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) standard virus test?
John Savill
April 7, 2002
1 Min Read
A. The EICAR group has created a standard file for testing the effectiveness of antivirus software. The test file appears to be a virus to these antivirus products, but is actually a harmless stream of 68 ASCII characters:
X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* The test file is available on the EICAR Web site in the following four formats:
A virus in a Web page
A virus in a downloadable text file
A virus in a downloadable zip file
A virus in a zip file in a downloadable zip file
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