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Yes, It was detected. My software stopped it in it's tracks.
Yes, It was detected, but I had to scan the file.
No detection.
I have no clue what I am doing....
hi !
THANKS Airbot, mystery solved...
i was starting to wonder what was going on, you saved me from wasting a lot of time testing a2 tomorrow.
Eicar test is a very old well known test and almost all AV vendors had time to add this test samples to their AV databases of signatures - thats why you have so good scores :)
I downloaded 3 files:
eicar.com: AVG Free detected one threat; malware bytes detected 1 threat
eicar_com.zip: AVG Free detected two threats; malware bytes detected nothing
eicarcom2.zip: AVG Free detected three threats; malware bytes detected nothing.
I had to manually choose to scan these files to get a result---I wasn't prevented from downloading or saving them.
Interesting.
Avast detects it during the download and before, but only in Firefox, which is set as my default browser. It doesn't detect it with IE8, even if setting IE8 to default.
Malwarebytes pro doesn't detect any of them for me. This is with a x64 system.
Well said.
This is a well known test "virus" that everybody should catch. The MSE reaction was interesting in that it caught it as it started the download process (for me). Some others have posted that it saw what it was even earlier.
Bottom line: I would be concerned if my antivirus/antimalware DIDN'T catch these test files right off the bat.
For me MSE caught it immediately, not allowing the files to be saved period.