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If you are active in the anti-virus research field, then you will regularly receive requests for virus samples. Using real viruses for testing in the real world is rather like setting fire, to see whether the smoke detector is working. Such a test will give meaningful results, but with unappealing, unacceptable risks. Since you cannot send out real viruses for test or demonstration purposes, you need a file that can safely be passed around and which is obviously non-viral, but which your anti-virus software will react to as if it were a virus. The "EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File"is such a file. It is safe to pass around, it is not a virus and does not include any fragments of viral code. Any anti-virus product that supports the EICAR test file should detect it in any file.
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