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[Humpty]

A simple, fun and harmless way to see if your AV is working.

1. Open a new text file (New Text Document.txt).

2. Copy and paste this code into it:

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

3. Rename it to whatever.com . You shouldn't even have to run it - changing the name of the file should be enough to activate your AV - but running (opening) it is harmless and should generate the same warning.

Borrowed from here

KAV kills it no probs.

[Andavari]

Just about an good av should detect it, and I highly recommend trying the EICAR test. It's good to try when switching to a new anti-virus, anti-trojan, anti-spyware product just so that one can get used to it's dialogs for dealing with a test virus, versus waiting for the real thing.

[Eldmannen]

Yeah, it an standard test file that all antivirus software detect, so that people can verify that their software is correctly installed and configured and works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR
http://en.wikipedia....Eicar_test_file