NEWS ARCHIVE
Email virus test page
This page provides a real life demonstration of our virus scanning services. We have a perfectly harmless industry standard test virus available for download here. Whilst all virus scanners should detect this virus and produce a warning, the file itself is harmless. To read more about the Eicar test file we suggest you go to http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
Virus test your own
servers
By entering your email address in the box below and clicking the submit
button, we'll send you a message containing the above harmless test file.
If you receive the message and the attachment has not been removed, or you
don't receive at least a warning from your mail server, then you probably
have a disaster waiting to happen. This is a simple test virus and should
easily be detected by any precautions already in place.
IMPORTANT: Whilst the above file is an industry standard safe test for all the leading virus scanners, we take no responsibility whatsoever for anything that may happen to your systems as a result of this test.