lifehacker.com — The EICAR virus test is a harmless text file that is detected as a virus by most AV vendors. You can use it to verify that your local virus scanner is working (just copy the string into a plain text file), check to see if your email server scans for viruses (email yourself a copy), and test if scanners detect viruses...
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shadonyxJun 28, 2006
NOD32 picked it up with no problem. Like another user mentioned, every time I tried to save the file it was automatically quaratined.
bigfoot48Jun 28, 2006
However Avast! did reach the Advanced level, while AVG is at Standard. The highest level is Advanced+ which many AV products achieved. The testing site suggests that the level indicator is more important than the raw percentages.Might be a good time to dump AVG for Avast! for those of us on the free wagon.
thorpeJun 29, 2006
Well, at least now we know Google had theirs up-to-date.
mydiggnameJun 30, 2006
My AVG didn't catch it when I scanned it. Did I do something wrong? I pasted that text into a file and saved it as .COM...and nothing...:S
m2ys4uJul 8, 2006
Wikipedia articles have a nice little section at the bottom with sources, so, as long as you varify the sources collaborate with the wiki article (and you trust the sources) you're good to go.
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