Can your anti-virus past the test?

[John Connor]

This is a harmless file that should trigger your anti-virus software. http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

Here's what I get.

 

[compman25]

Mine stops it also, not surprised though, it is Bitdefender too.

 

[Paperlantern]

Mine grabbed it, Bitdefender Internet Security 2015, so I too am not surprised.

 

[JEDIYoda]

yep...bit defender on my wife`s computer stopped it!!

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Haha, chrome blocked the website. My AV didn't give a crap. It only bothers when it activates the file.

 

[John Connor]

What AV are you using?

 

[IGemini]

Comodo AV on mine, triggered.

 

[John Connor]

I'm damn curios to see how MSE holds up. LOL

 

[nickbits]

windows defender got it

and i couldn't even open it on my mac in my text edtior

 

[John Connor]

Okay, if Windows defender detected it than I bet MSE will too.

 

[Fardringle]

Interesting. Chrome blocked the page, but both Firefox 31 and IE 11 let me actually try to download the file, and then my Trend Micro (corporate) blocked the file itself.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

What AV are you using?

AVG and malwarebytes.

 

[HOSED]

AVG free did the job (Surprise ) and of course the standard " this file could harm * message from IE 11's builtin Downloader

 

[Ketchup]

Watchguard firewall blocked it at my location.

 

[John Connor]

I was just looking at Watchguard and it seems similar to Untangle. The diffrence is that you can run Untangle on your own server or computer for free. Untangle does offer appliances, but the cheapest is like $700. I am going to deploy an old Dell server with Untangle soon.

 

[seepy83]

A/V will block it because they have definitions that trigger on that specific string of characters in the EICAR file. This really is not reflective of the quality of, or how good/bad, a particular A/V software is. I just wanted to clarify that for anyone that doesn't understand how the EICAR test file works.

 

[readymix]

Norton blocked it and with Norton disabled, ie enhanced protected mode blocked it.

 

[mikeymikec]

The EICAR test is more than 14 years old btw. I generated a bit of havoc with it when I was a teen; it turns out that this file in someone's home directory (Novell Netware) would render that user's login pretty much useless, as the system wouldn't allow a user to access a folder that contained a virus.

It was surprising how many people copied this into their home directories, I brought it to college on a floppy.

 

[John Connor]

A/V will block it because they have definitions that trigger on that specific string of characters in the EICAR file. This really is not reflective of the quality of, or how good/bad, a particular A/V software is. I just wanted to clarify that for anyone that doesn't understand how the EICAR test file works.

I can give a real virus link. LOL But the mods would most likely remove it so I'm stuck with this. Anyone want it send me a PM.