Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
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4.5. Testing Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
operation
After installing and adjusting Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
, we recommend that you test
its settings and operation of the program 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 to test 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
.
When the file is being downloaded from the
EICAR
website, the anti-virus
program will detect it, label it as infected, fail to disinfect it, and apply the action
defined by the administrator for handling such objects. Thus, under default
settings (see section 4.1 on page 19), the Internet connection will be terminated
and you will see a warning about downloading an object infected with the
eicar
virus.
4.6. Application statistics and
diagnostics
You can view Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
performance statistics using standard
counters and modify options for notifying the administrator upon critical events.
You can also have Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
log statistics to diagnose problems that
might occur when the program is filtering data streams.
This section discusses these features in more detail.
4.6.1. Recording and viewing statistics
The Kaspersky-Anti-Virus performance statistics can be managed and viewed
using standard Windows performance counters that are available from the
