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Interesting.

My Anti-virus kicked off after downloading this, identified as EICAR-AV-Test

From a bit of googling, it seems EICAR-AV-Test is a file to test antivirus

https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/

People still use antivirus in 2022?? I think it's well-understood that antivirus has somehow managed to be worse than not having it, as antivirus programs themselves often have vulnerabilities that make full system compromise easier.

Note that your antivirus is also performing worse than even the average antivirus, which is already pretty bad. The EICAR test file is only meant to be detected if the file size is less than or equal to 128 bytes long.

I personally do not, but my company issued laptop does.

I would not disagree that it makes the computer worse, there was a significant performance decrease when the latest version was installed earlier this year but this is off topic.

What I found interesting was that I didn't know about EICAR until today.

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