Sample virus or bit pattern to verify anti-virus software is working?

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Sample virus or bit pattern to verify anti-virus software is working? Jordan Samuels 12-01-2004
Posted by Jordan Samuels on December 1, 2004, 12:47 pm
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Sorry if this is a newbie question. I wonder if there are samples of
harmless viruses on the usual (e.g. Norton) lists that I can use
simply to verify that my computer is properly protected. It's one
thing to configure a bunch of dialogs and quite another to send
yourself a virus over email/web/whatever and see that yes, indeed, the
software caught it. I'm wondering if such samples, or at least their
bit patterns, exist purely for testing purposes.

Thanks very much,
Jordan Samuels


Posted by Eric Chevalier on December 1, 2004, 3:16 pm
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On 1 Dec 2004 12:47:33 -0800, jordan@madsam.com (Jordan Samuels) wrote:

>Sorry if this is a newbie question. I wonder if there are samples of
>harmless viruses on the usual (e.g. Norton) lists that I can use
>simply to verify that my computer is properly protected. It's one
>thing to configure a bunch of dialogs and quite another to send
>yourself a virus over email/web/whatever and see that yes, indeed, the
>software caught it. I'm wondering if such samples, or at least their
>bit patterns, exist purely for testing purposes.

Take a look at:

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

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