EICAR_Test virus

[acme]

Has anybody received a EICAR_Test virus ? Yes, our beloved EICAR has turned into a virus
I got about 10 of these so far. Must be a clone.....

 

[jamescv7]

EICAR test file is pretty harmless, design to test AV realtime protection since its in a temp folder then you may clean with CCleaner.

Do you download those files in multiple times? One at a time is enough to test it.

 

[Cch123]

Did you purposely download the Eicar test file? If not, then it could be a virus. I know of malware which purposely includes the Eicar test string inside its code to confuse virus scanners and users into thinking that it is harmless.

 

[acme]

Did you purposely download the Eicar test file? If not, then it could be a virus. I know of malware which purposely includes the Eicar test string inside its code to confuse virus scanners and users into thinking that it is harmless.

I haven't downloaded EICAR in years. It just pops up anytime I changed antivirus to see if it does it again, so far it hasn't popped up. Somebody could have piggy backed EICAR and drove it around to create havoc

 

[Behold Eck]

Yup, I got the same about a week ago.It was picked up by Unthreat but it was of no concern due to it being in the temp files which were sandboxed anyway.

Not a good ploy for malware to pose as a test virus as most AV`s will pick up on it.Maybe EICAR somehow got out in the wild and now is whirling around as a driveby ?

Had to get rid of Unthreat as it kept reverting to an expired trial version.Shady tactics,to be expected.

Regards Eck

 

[acme]

Yup, I got the same about a week ago.It was picked up by Unthreat but it was of no concern due to it being in the temp files which were sandboxed anyway.

Not a good ploy for malware to pose as a test virus as most AV`s will pick up on it.Maybe EICAR somehow got out in the wild and now is whirling around as a driveby ?

Had to get rid of Unthreat as it kept reverting to an expired trial version.Shady tactics,to be expected.

Regards Eck

I think I found out what happened. I did some digging into how it gets sent out every hour and saw an 'Emsisoft Anti-Malware' address attached to the malware link Below ↓ shows it's gone after I uninstalled Emsisoft . The RED highlighted is the malware caught, then it stops. Don't know how that happened

 

[Behold Eck]

Could be some sort self test otherwise it`s going to be a name change to Emsisoft Pro Malware ?

Who knows but interesting all the same.

Regards Eck

 

[Maximum]

Could be some sort self test otherwise it`s going to be a name change to Emsisoft Pro Malware ?

Who knows but interesting all the same.

Regards Eck

Interesting indeed.

But EICAR is harmless, so there's nothing to worry about

 

[Behold Eck]

No worries at all as they were only temp files that were sandboxed anyway but it`s more where the hell did they come from and that it happened to someone else as well ?

Regards Eck

 

[Behold Eck]

It`s back, just after installing Bitdefender free the same detection.

No big deal though.

Regards Eck