Specifications

Installation Procedures
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it as if it were a virus. Use it to trigger a virus incident and confirm that email
notifications, HTTP scanning, and virus logs work properly.
WA RN IN G! Never use real viruses to test your antivirus installation.
To test your installation's ability to detect an infected file:
1. Open an ASCII text file and copy the following 68-character string to it:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!
$H+H*
• Save the file as EICAR.com to a temp directory. If there is an antivirus
installation on your machine, it should immediately detect the file.
• To test other computers on your network that your antivirus installation is
currently protecting, attach the EICAR.com file to an email message and send it
to one of the computers.
Note: Trend Micro also recommends testing a zipped version of the EICAR file. Using
compression software, compress the test script and perform the steps above.
To test your installation's HTTP scanning capability:
1. Download the EICAR.com test script from either of the following URLs:
http://www.ei car.org/anti_virus _test_file.htm
2. Your antivirus products should show that the EICAR test virus was detected.