Disclaimer: There are more meaningful, and more advanced solutions to test your security solutions, but for a quick, simple, and riskless test, the upcoming test files are more than enough. EICAR test file The most common test file to test said solutions is the EICAR Anti-Virus Test File. The European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) and Computer Antivirus Research Organization (CARO) developed the test file, and is in the end a simple text file with a plain string of ASCII c...
