A. The EICAR group has created a standard file for testing the effectiveness of antivirus software. The test file appears to be a virus to these antivirus products, but is actually a harmless stream of 68 ASCII characters:
X5O!P%@AP\[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7\}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
The test file is available on the EICAR Web site in the following four formats:
- A virus in a Web page
- A virus in a downloadable text file
- A virus in a downloadable zip file
- A virus in a zip file in a downloadable zip file
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