Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi

To test the virus scanning configuration of your appliance: 

Enable virus scanning for a mail policy. 

Use the Security Services > Sophos/McAfee Anti-virus page or the 

antivirusconfig

 command to set global settings, and then use the Email 

Security Manager pages (GUI) or the 

antivirus

 subcommand of 

policyconfig

 to configure the settings for a specific mail policy. 

Open a standard text editor, then type the following character string as one line, 
with no spaces or line breaks:

The line shown above should appear as one line in your text editor 
window, so be sure to maximize your text editor window and delete any 
line breaks. Also, be sure to type the letter O, not the number 0, in the 
“X5O...” that begins the test message.

If you are reading this manual on your computer, you can copy the line 
directly from the PDF file or HTML file and paste it into your text editor. If 
you copy the line, be sure to delete any extra carriage returns or spaces.

Save the file with the name 

. 

The file size will be 68 or 70 bytes.

This file is not a virus — it cannot spread or infect other files, or otherwise 
harm your computer. However, you should delete the file when you have 
finished testing your scanner to avoid alarming other users. 

Attach the file 

EICAR.COM

 to an email message, and send it to the listener that will 

match the mail policy you configured in step 1. 

Ensure the that the recipient you specify in the test message will be accepted 
on the listener. (For more information, see 

.) 

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