CHAPTER 6.
TESTING THE
PROGRAM
After installing and adjusting Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
, we recommend that you test
the correctness of program settings, its operation, and the formation of rules for
scanning messages using a test "virus" or its modifications.
The test virus was specially designed by the
organization (The
European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research) for testing anti-virus
products.
The test "virus" IS NOT ACTUALLY A VIRUS because it does not contain code
that can really harm your computer. However, most anti-virus products identify
this file as a virus
Never use real viruses for testing the operation of an anti-virus product!
You can download the test "virus" from the official website of the
EICAR
organization at
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
. If you have no
Internet connection, you can create your own test “virus.” To create a test "virus"
type the following string 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 downloaded from the
EICAR
website or created as described above
contains the body of a standard test "virus". The anti-virus program will detect it,
label as
Infected Object
, fails to disinfect it, and applies the action defined by
the administrator for handling similar objects.
To test the response of your anti-virus program to other types of objects, modify
the body of this standard test "virus" by adding one of the prefixes listed in
Table 3.
You can test the correctness of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
operation using
the modified EICAR "virus" only if your anti-virus database has been
last updated on October 24, 2003 at the earliest (cumulative updates –
October, 2003).
