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7.3. Testing the application using 

EICAR  

This test "virus" has been developed by 

(The European Institute for 

Computer Anti-Virus Research) specifically for the purpose of verification of the 
anti-virus software operation. 
It IS NOT A VIRUS and contains no code that may harm your computer. 
However, most products of anti-virus vendors identify it as a virus (The European 
Institute for Computer Antivirus Research). 

 

Never use real viruses to test the operation of your anti-virus 
application!  

The test "virus" can be downloaded from the official site of EICAR at: 

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

. If you have no Internet access, you 

can create a test "virus" manually. To do so, enter the line below in any text 
editor and save the file as eicar.com: 

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

The file that you downloaded from the EICAR site or created in a text editor as 
described above, contains the body of a standard test "virus". The anti-virus 
application will detect it, flag it as Infected and perform the specified action for 
objects with this status. 
To test the application's response to other types of objects, modify the body of 
the standard test "virus" by adding one of the prefixes below (see Table 5). 

 

You can verify the proper operation of Kaspersky Mail Gateway using 
modifications of the EICAR "virus" only if your anti-virus databases 
were last updated on or after October 24, 2003, or has the cumulative 
updates for October 2003. 

Table 5. Test "virus" modifications 

No prefix, 
standard test 
"virus"" 

Infected. An error occurs during disinfection. The object will 
then be deleted. 

CORR– 

Corrupted. 

SUSP– 

Suspicious (unknown virus code).