If you would like to test Apple's XProtect system, you can now safely do so with the latest definitions update. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

Back in 2008, EICAR rejected a paper proposed by Andrew Lee and myself discussing the state of anti-malware testing and how it might be improved, on the grounds that it was “advertising” the fledgling ...

I'm writing an application that will receive PDF documents, scan them for viruses and then place them in a folder on internal servers. I've included an AV check in the process but I'm unsure how to ...

EICAR (formerly known as the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research, though that title hasn't been used for a good while) is best known for its yearly conference and for the EICAR test ...

You may be using Windows Defender or a third-party Antivirus software or an Internet Security Suite to protect your Windows 11/10 system – whatever it is, if you want to test if your Antivirus ...