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Interesting. My Anti-virus kicked off after downloading this, identified as EICAR-AV-Test From a bit of googling, it seems EICAR-AV-Test is a file to test ant
by Geenirvana 4y ago
Interesting.
My Anti-virus kicked off after downloading this, identified as EICAR-AV-Test
From a bit of googling, it seems EICAR-AV-Test is a file to test antivirus
https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/ https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/
- pxx 4y agoPeople still use antivirus in 2022?? I think it's well-understood that antivirus has somehow managed to be worse than not having it, as antivirus programs themselves often have vulnerabilities that make full system compromise easier. Note that your antivirus is also performing worse than even the average antivirus, which is already pretty bad. The EICAR test file is only meant to be detected if the file size is less than or equal to 128 bytes long.
- Geenirvana 4y agoI personally do not, but my company issued laptop does. I would not disagree that it makes the computer worse, there was a significant performance decrease when the latest version was installed earlier this year but this is off topic. What I found interesting was that I didn't know about EICAR until today.