Testing your InVircible installation

The following is a test to verify the InVircible installation and the proper functioning of Interceptor.

• Check first that the IV icon is visible on the system tray, indicating that Interceptor is active.



• If you are connected to the web, then right-click the link here and select 'Save Target' from the drop-menu, to download the test file and save it to the local hard drive. If IV was installed properly, then Interceptor should issue a warning message and prevent the download. Note that just clicking the link opens the file for viewing and nothing will happen!
  
  Nothing harmful will happen if the downloaded wasn't blocked by Interceptor, as the test file is totally innocent (it's a "do nothing" EXE file, with deceptive naming, that contains just plain text). Yet the failure of IV to block the download is an indication that IV wasn't installed properly, or that Interceptor isn't functioning as it should.



• The procedure below does the same as the test described above, yet without downloading anything from the web.



1. Click with the mouse right button on an empty place on your desktop, select 'New', then 'Text document' and create the new object.



2. Select the new object, and press F2 to rename it. Type in a new label "IVTEST.TXT.PIF", without the quotation marks. Note that after pressing Enter, you will only see the label Ivtest.txt, but not the PIF extention! This trick is being used by malware writers to cheat users by concealing the true nature of unsolicited and bogus attachments to e-mail.



3. Double click the Ivtest icon, and Interceptor should pop a warning message that the file has a suspicious filename.



4. You may wish to run Audit & Integrity as well, just to see that the test file is reported by the A&I application. Yet the latter test is not really necessary, as the Interceptor popup message is good enough indication that IV was installed properly, and Interceptor performs as devised.



5. Lastly, double click once more the test icon, then press the 'Delete' button and the test file should disappear.

Last modified: 25 Jul 2004