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 ...

is a harmless text file that is detected as a virus by most AV vendors. You can use it to verify that your local virus scanner is working (just copy the string into a plain text file), check to see if ...