EICARgen download for windows is a small console program that deliberately creates virus files to test the effectiveness of anti-virus programs installed on computers (primarily their real-time scanning modules) as part of our computer security suite. To use EICARgen successfully, run it from CMD as opposed to double clicking an icon after unpacking its archive file.
Before conducting any tests with anti-virus programs, ensure they are active. Once this step has been taken, proceed to generate and save an EVIR virus file with its selected (or default) extension in its appropriate folder; by default this would be similar to where EICARgen application resides. Manual entry may also help find files faster; however, our antivirus software should recognize any potentially malicious files and quickly attempt to delete them. Furthermore, certain antivirus applications may consider EICARgen itself malicious and display warnings about this. In such a situation, any such warning should be ignored as blocking EICARgen will prevent us from ever reaching its true functionality of creating “safe” virus files (although let us remember the risks).
EICARgen free for pc represents an unusual proposition that should appeal to users looking to explore the real-time analysis algorithms embedded into computer security packages.
Attention!
Please use this application at your own risk, after unpacking of its archive file there will not be an installation requirement for running this software program.
System Information
- Producent:Â Didier Stevens
- License : Freeware
- Operating System : Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10
