User Guide

68 Kaspersky
®
SMTP-Gateway 5.0
8.2. Testing the application using
EICAR
This test "virus" has been developed by (The European Institute for
Computer Anti-Virus Research) specifically for the purpose of verification of the
anti-virus software operation.
The test "virus" IS NOT A VIRUS and contains no code that may harm your
computer. However, most products of anti-virus vendors identify it as a virus.
Never use real viruses to test the operation of your anti-virus applica-
tion!
The test "virus" can be downloaded from the official site of EICAR at:
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
. If you have no Internet access, you
can create a test "virus" manually. To do so enter the line below in any text editor
and save the file as eicar.com:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-
FILE!$H+H*
The file that you downloaded from the EICAR site or created in a text editor as
described above, contains the body of a standard test "virus". The anti-virus
application will detect it, flag it as Infected and perform the specified action for
objects with this status.
To test the application's response to other types of objects, modify the body of
the standard test "virus" by adding one of the prefixes below (see Table 1).
You can verify the proper operation of Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway us-
ing modifications of the EICAR "virus" only if your anti-virus databases
was last updated on or after October 24, 2003, or has the cumulative
updates for October 2003.