Testing The Antivirus Protection - F-SECURE LINUX SECURITY Manual

3. Select F-Secure Panel Applet from the list of installed GNOME panel applets.
• If you are not using GNOME, enter fsui command from the command line.
2. Double-click the product icon in the system tray to open the Web User Interface.
After the product icon is installed to the system tray, you can access the Web User Interface
with it.
It is possible to have both F-Secure Policy Manager and the Web User Interface in use at the
same time.
Note: The user can locally override the settings created with F-Secure Policy Manager
unless the administrator has prevented this by selecting the
Policy Manager settings.

Testing the Antivirus Protection

To test whether the product operates correctly, you can use a special test file that is detected
as a virus.
The EICAR (EICAR is the European Institute of Computer Anti-virus Research) standard antivirus
test file is detected by several antivirus programs. The Eicar info page can be found at
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/virus-info/eicar_test_file.shtml
1. Download or create the EICAR test file.
• Download the EICAR test file from
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/virus-info/eicar_test_file.shtml
• Use any text editor to create the eicar.com file with the following single line in it:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
2. Run the following command: fsav eicar.com
The product should detect the EICAR test file as a virus.
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Final checkbox in the F-Secure
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