Technical Tip: How to set correctly Antivirus for EICAR test

1. Make sure to have a firewall policy set on proxy inspection mode, the Antivirus profile and File Filter are set on proxy mode.
2. Make sure to have the firewall operating in profile mode.
3. In this example, default profile and Deep inspection are enabled.
4. Do not forget to install certificate CA on the PC to protect it.
5. It is possible to test with Eicar's anti-malware test file.
6. Download any of the following files and a blocking message like this one will appear:

date=2025-09-25 time=02:57:49 eventtime=1758794268860360434 tz="-0700" logid="0211008192" type="utm" subtype="virus" eventtype="infected" level="warning" vd="root" policyid=8 poluuid="acfe8828-564c-51f0-9e45-c451ae68d1de" policytype="policy" msg="File is infected." action="blocked" service="HTTPS" sessionid=354536291 srcip=10.187.17.245 dstip=89.238.73.97 srcport=55914 dstport=443 srccountry="Reserved" dstcountry="Germany" srcintf="port4" srcintfrole="undefined" dstintf="port1" dstintfrole="undefined" srcuuid="d42df33a-2f13-51f0-b7cf-b3cd98be54d3" dstuuid="d42df33a-2f13-51f0-b7cf-b3cd98be54d3" proto=6 direction="incoming" filename="eicarcom2.zip" quarskip="Quarantine-disabled" virus="EICAR_TEST_FILE" viruscat="Virus" dtype="av-engine" ref="https://fortiguard.com/encyclopedia/virus/2172" virusid=2172 url="https://secure.eicar.org/eicarcom2.zip" profile="default" agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" httpmethod="GET" referralurl="https://www.eicar.org/" analyticscksum="e1105070ba828007508566e28a2b8d4c65d192e9eaf3b7868382b7cae747b397" analyticssubmit="false" crscore=50 craction=2 crlevel="critical"

To install certificate Fortinet_CA_SSL:

'Double-click' on the .cert file, select the Install option -> Local PC/Device, place all certificates on the following store, choose the second folder, select next, and then, select 'Finish'.

Related documents: 

• Configuring an antivirus profile - FortiGate administration guide
• Testing an antivirus profile - FortiGate administration guide