Hi-- On Apr 21, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Dave Shevett <shev...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi everyone - we have clamav now running happily via cron job and > integrated with puppet. Problem is I want to have it successfully find > something so I can test our notification mechanism. > > "Infect one of my servers" seems a big gruesome. Is there an easy way > to test clamav notifications (like a simple test rule that says "if > there's a file called BOB here, you're infected with the BOBSMASH virus?"
You want to use the EICAR test file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file It's a harmless test file which is also a working 16-bit COM file: % clamscan eicar.com eicar.com: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
