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Test your anti virus software with eicar

By Archana


Do you want to check whether you have deployed your anti virus(AV) software correctly?
Checking your AV software with real virus is risky!What if you have an option to test with a file which the AV software detects as if it were a virus,but actually it is non-viral?
EICAR(European Institution for Computer Anti virus Research) provides Anti-malware test file for this purpose.It provides four test files to check your anti virus software.A good anti virus scanner will believe that the file is virus-infected.
To download the anti-malware test files,visit this website
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