Is this dodgy?

http://www.rexswain.com/eicar.html

One for the techies.

 

Cheers fella.

 

Not dodgy at all. IIRC one just saves that string as a .com or .exe
file to test if a virus checker is working.

 

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

That's all it is.

 

Agreed, it's a harmless test file.
Norton detects it even as a TXT file.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Cane amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Dodgy how?

I didn't need to read it to know it's a test virus.

You just download it and scan your PC, your AV software should find it.

It's just a bit of benign code that AV software writers put in their
signature files.

It won't do anything bad if that's what you're worried about.

 

It's fine. Check out www.eicar.org - It means " European Institute for
Computer Antivirus Research", but I don't think that they use the term
in full any more.

Get more test viruses here:

http://www.webmail.us/testvirus

 

Why would anyone want "more test viruses"?

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
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BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
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I was going to say that if you're checking something out I wouldn't
take anything as gospel from a site that's linked from the original
claim.

As the claim Sophos will detect it a quick rummage around their site
shows this:
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/27.html

It appears to be ok.

 

To test email server setups?

Anyway, some people like that sort of thing.

 

yep, use it all the time for our clients to test