test your antivirus · DIGIT-ARC

Jst paste d following code in ne text editor n save it with .txt extension...!!

D code:

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

Ur antivirus must show a warnin'..!!
If it doesnt den its time to switch to another antivirus......!!

what sort of code is that.......... or is that a virus or something else ??

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dude.....it is working........i am using nod32 and it immediately deleted the file........good job dude

@vish786

it is not a virus.it will just test ur antivirus......if ur antivirus doesnt detected it.......delete file manually and change ur antivirus

Strange!! my nod32 deleted it. What code is that and what does it do?

It is EICAR test file.Right?

My Avast! didn't detected any virus.

yes it is eicar test file

Cool G5 said:
It is EICAR test file.Right?

My Avast! didn't detected any virus.

thats why i dont reccomend avast to people

M

kaspersky detected it........

Nod32 and KIS is the best .... and also AntiVir

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AVG detected it.

navjotjsingh said:
AVG detected it.

it always does..its very good

Norton did not detect it

Norton is the worst

ax3 said:
avast has found it ............

Which Avast you are using ?
Is it Avast! home.

Avast didnt find it..

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

*img253.imageshack.us/img253/8348/avasttestresultbi4.jpg

Source: *www.avast.com/eng/eicar-antivirus-test-file.html

ssk_the_gr8 said:
thats why i dont reccomend avast to people

Please study a little bit more before making such comments...

With regards...

Subrata Bera.

ChaiTan3 said:
Norton is the worst

Norton is a resource hog

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Avast Home does not say anything about it.

Mhh...Interesting Info

...NOD32 just issued me a warning!!!

Kaspersky detected the so called virus

Hey..Guess what..I just tested this on a machine running where i am testing Norton 360..There was complete silence and this so called virus wasn't detected at all

Norton is not only a resource hog, it is even incapable of detecting some viruses

Detected By Trend Micro Pc-cillin

Detected As Eicar Test File

nice wow gr8 r u having some more

nope, avast didn't detect it. using avast home 4.7

subratabera said:
*img253.imageshack.us/img253/8348/avasttestresultbi4.jpg

Source: *www.avast.com/eng/eicar-antivirus-test-file.html

Please study a little bit more before making such comments...

With regards...

Subrata Bera.

sorry bro but avast only detects its wen we sav file usin X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
and does not detect wen us make file usin
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$Dhiraj-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

it means avaast is cheatin a bit. it simply reads that text file for EICAR n report as EICAR test file!!

fun2sh said:
sorry bro but avast only detects its wen we sav file usin X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
and does not detect wen us make file usin
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$Dhiraj-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

it means avaast is cheatin a bit. it simply reads that text file for EICAR n report as EICAR test file!!

You are absolutely right. But if you look carefully there are two instances of the same line with different VIRUS headers....

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

And by the way according to Wikipedia the Eicar test string reads:

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

And that means....Avast is not cheating at all...Don't you think so....

Subrata Bera.

all av know about this EICAR test file and HENCE some just dont even bother to detect or delete it actually !!! that dznt mean ur particular av is bad !

*www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

there is one more such, but i cant seem to place it now ...

Avast detected it after renaming the file with EICAR.com.

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ZoneAlarm Anti-virus version:7.0.337.000 detected and quarantied it.

This AV test File indicates whether ur AV works/not and it doesn't indicate which AV is the Best

anandk said:
all av know about this EICAR test file and HENCE some just dont even bother to detect or delete it actually !!! that dznt mean ur particular av is bad !

*www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

True...

T

Avast home unable to detect.
NOD32 found it.

Man, Avast detected it!!

my avast real time scanner didn't detect it. i then exclusively scanned just that file and still avast didn't detect it

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mcafee didnt detect the original code....

but when i typed that modified code given by subratabera.... it detected in a flash n gav a prompt warning n deleted the file.....

i din need even to scan it.... so mcafee is good ... acc. to me..

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hey , which is better nod32 or kav

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Zone Alarm caught it when I tried to open the file.

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vish786 said:
what sort of code is that.......... or is that a virus or something else ??

This is virus signature.
hmm.. quickheal also give me warning. It gives file name as eicar test file. I have downloaded this file 3 days ago in .exe extension.

well buddy nod32 do it it's still in my pc

NOD32 popped up a window saying that the file was removed for quarantine, just as I clicked on saving the file. And sure enough, when I closed the NOD32 pop-up, the text file was gone.