Title: Test with EICAR test files
Last modified: June 30, 2020

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# Test with EICAR test files

 *  Resolved [gluehbirne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gluehbirne/)
 * (@gluehbirne)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-with-eicar-test-files/)
 * Hi,
 * i wanted to test the feeling of this plugin and uploaded EICAR test files to 
   my upload folder. I started the scan and it found nothing.
 * does this plugin not scan all the selected files to detect malware? i am not 
   sure if i understood the functionality correctly.

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 *  Plugin Author [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * (@scheeeli)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-with-eicar-test-files/#post-13056348)
 * What EICAR test file are you using?
 * If you have download the standard test file from [https://www.eicar.org/](https://www.eicar.org/)
   and uploaded that to your site to test my plugin then I can confirm that it will
   not identify that file as a threat, because it isn’t a threat to your site. Those
   test files are for binary malware of the kind that would be found on your PC 
   by Windows based Anti-Malware software. Web-based malware is quite different 
   and my plugin is designed to look for malicious code that would be executed by
   your server not compiled binary code which will have not effect on your server
   😉
 * While binary malware cannot be remotely executed on a server and is therefore
   relatively safe to upload I would strongly advise you not to upload and know 
   PHP threats or any other malicious CGI/Perl/Python code that that could be called
   remotely or accidentally executed on the server.
 * Please let me know if you have any more questions on any of this.
 * If I have misunderstood about what kind of EICAR test files you are using then
   please send me that file so that I can examine it and give you a better answer.
 * Aloha, Eli
 *  Thread Starter [gluehbirne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gluehbirne/)
 * (@gluehbirne)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-with-eicar-test-files/#post-13057749)
 * Hi [@scheeeli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/),
 * ok – then i misunderstood the plugin functionality 🙂
 * Thanks!
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [gluehbirne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gluehbirne/).

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 * Last reply from: [gluehbirne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gluehbirne/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-with-eicar-test-files/#post-13057749)
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