CHAPTER 9. VERFIFYING
PROPER OPERATION OF
THE ANTI-VIRUS
When the installation and setup of Kaspersky Anti-Virus are complete, we
recommend checking the settings and correct operation of the program using a
test "virus" and modifications thereof.
The test "virus" has been specifically developed by
(The European
Institute for Computer Antivirus Research) for verifying the operation of anti-virus
products.
The test "virus" IS NOT A VIRUS and it contains no code that can harm your
computer; at that, most products of anti-virus vendors identify it as a virus.
Never use real viruses to test the operational integrity of anti-virus
products!
The test "virus" can be downloaded from the official site of
EICAR
at:
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
. If you have no Internet access, you
can create a test "virus" manually. To do so enter the line below in any text editor
and save it to a file under the name
eicar.com
:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-
FILE!$H+H*
The file, which you have downloaded from
EICAR
site or created in a text editor
as described above, contains the body of a standard test "virus". The Anti-Virus
detects it, assigns the
Infected
incurable type to it and performs an action
defined by the administrator for objects belonging to such type.
In order to test the Anti-Virus reaction to the detection of objects belonging to
other types, you may modify the contents of the standard test "virus" by adding
one of the prefixes below (please see table below).
You can only check correct operation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus using
modifications of the EICAR "virus" if your anti-virus databases are
dated Oct. 24, 2003 or later (cumulative update – October 2003).
