ecar virus simulator

I hit an article where the staff mentioned Ecar.com Google shows only two
post to this site, so a third.

I run Nod32 now ESETnod32 almost all the time, now with XPro64bit, but
the OS doesn't matter nor the anti-virus program.

I have
XADDED5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
that should make this page unvisitable without ADDED if I assume correctly.
I used to add it to usenet posts to set off alerts.

If I take that line and create fake.com I get "that file isn't made for this OS" at the moment, other times (OS's) I get nothing.

I go to ~No links to malware allowed here.~ (site is clean but contains virus's) to test my anti-virus programs
.

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Nod32 catches about 80% which is very good.

But my question is why doesn't the Ecar string work?
My string was picked up 1 May 2003, as The Anti-Virus test file, But shouldn't matter.

Just curious, thanks.

 

The eicar string works for me. Test it yourself by going to http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

Theres a .txt file you can attempt to download that will trigger the event.

 

Yes. And since it's a VX site, I wouldn't expect a serious antivirus to detect more of the stuff out there.

 

One of the test was to send Ecar back to myself, to see if
it were caught. I just noticed the E-mail wasn't sent.
(Agent newsreader 1.93 using stunnel for POP3).

The reason:
11/16/2010 7:37:35 PM Error reported by Server: 552-5.7.0 Our system detected an illegal attachment on your message.
Please.: Sending email message "test".

No clue what the Please is all about, but shows at least my mail server is blocking ecar .

Thanks for the replies.

 

It's Eicar, not Ecar. Are you sure you are visiting the correct site? Or more accurately - EICAR - European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research.


Jim

 

The operating system might matter if you just test the EICAR.com "virus".

As this is a simple DOS program, it might no longer be able to run in a 64bit Windows environment, as Microsoft has pruned this function from their 64bit systems.