Test your anti-malware/anti-virus protection with EICAR

Nod32 AV on 64 bit...connection terminated and files quarantined as soon as I clicked on any of the links. No chance to save.

Kosmo said:

As many of you know(quite a few don't) what EICAR is, this is a open poll to see what programs pick it up and what programs fail the basic tests.

I am conducting this poll because A-Squared failed to see this on a scan, but MSE picked it up before it could be downloaded.


So after you take the poll, Post what you used to test it with and results.

WIKI: EICAR test file - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(links to test file) EICAR: eicar | THE ANTI-VIRUS OR ANTI-MALWARE TEST FILE

From my personal experience learned it that every known anti-virus program can pass this test, because it is a standard for testing anti-virus programs. An alternative is PC Security Test from PC SECURITY TEST 2007 - antivirus / antispyware / antihacking that checks computer security against viruses, spyware and hackers.

ignatzatsonic said:

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.

most A/V´s has a selectable option to "scan inside zip-files" & some also an option to select how "deep" (levels down) it should scan.

anyway, it´s not really important if a zip-file can be saved or not, since it can´t do anything harmful until you extract the content.
even an exe-file can´t do anything before you run it.

NOD32 V4.0.467.0 caught them all

The new Avast beta wont even let your browser load the webpage and the download is cancelled. BTW, this is a useless test.

I didn't even get to chance to click on SAVE before Avira AntiVir Premium stopped me.




And then it displayed this message:

MSE caught that and the package from PC security test.
I was an avid Eset fan until I loaded win 7, ESS stopped my fingerprint reader, wouldn't let me Homegroup and made 7 slow.
Since removing it and installing MSE for free I feel liberted, I don't P2P or go to many dodgy sites and what I saw with these test is that MSE is as good as many, maybe not the top of the tree, but the price is right and it updates itself and is virtually transparent on my machine, I'd recommend it to anybody

David

Norton Internet Security 2010 would not allow me to even download this file. I was unable to even save it to my system, let alone click any Setup files.