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Viruses and worms
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File name: C:\eicar.com
Malware name: EICAR Test-NOT virus!!
Malware type: Virus/worm
VPS version: 080217-0, 02/17/2008

recommended action: move to chest

A few words about the Eicar Standard AntiVirus Test File

The Eicar Standard AntiVirus Test File is a combined effort by antivirus vendors throughout the world and EICAR organisation to come up with one standard by which customers can verify their antivirus installations.

To test your installation, you would copy the following line into its own file and name it EICAR.COM.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

When done, the resulting file will have either 68 or 70 bytes.

When avast scans this file, it will report finding EICAR Test-­NOT virus!!.

It is very important to know that THIS IS NOT A VIRUS! However, users often have the need to test that their installations work properly. The antivirus industry, through the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, has adopted this standard to facilitate this need.

Please delete the file when installation testing is completed so that unsuspecting users are not unnecessarily alarmed.

i move it to chest file but it keps on coming… ?? help me please… i dont want to reformat

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It’s a test file, not a virus. It’s used to test your anti virus program. Why it keeps coming back, I don’t know. I just tried it and avast does move it.

Just go to the location shown and delete it.

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A-Squared
Found nothing
AntiVir
Found Eicar-Test-Signature
ArcaVir
Found Eicar.Test
Avast
Found EICAR Test-NOT!!
AVG Antivirus
Found nothing
BitDefender
Found EICAR-Test-File (not a virus)
ClamAV
Found Eicar-Test-Signature
CPsecure
Found EICAR-Test-File
Dr.Web
Found EICAR Test File (NOT a Virus!)
F-Prot Antivirus
Found EICAR_Test_File
F-Secure Anti-Virus
Found EICAR_Test_File, EICAR Test File, EICAR-Test-File
Fortinet
Found EICAR_TEST_FILE
Ikarus
Found EICAR-ANTIVIRUS-TESTFILE
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Found EICAR-Test-File
NOD32
Found Eicar test file
Norman Virus Control
Found EICAR_Test_file_not_a_virus!
Panda Antivirus
Found Eicar.Mod
Rising Antivirus
Found EICAR-Test-File
Sophos Antivirus
Found EICAR-AV-Test
VirusBuster
Found EICAR_test_file
VBA32
Found EICAR-Test-File

what should i do? i installed the avast free cleaner and run it… i move the file in the virus chest but it keeps coming… i have a dozen of this file in the chest… help please… im not a programmer or anything related…

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tell me the steps that should be done… i dont know how to fix this…

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File name: C:\eicar.com

Open your C drive, find eicar.com and delete it.

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cant find the folder in drive C sir