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Test Threat Prevention installation

  • Published on Sep 13, 2026
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Test Threat Prevention to make sure that it is installed properly and can protect your system.

You must have enabled the On-Access Scan protection.

Access the EICAR standard anti-virus test file to test the Threat Prevention feature. This file is the combined effort by anti-virus vendors to implement one standard that customers can use to validate the anti-virus software.

  1. Log on to the system as a user with administrator rights.

  2. Download the EICAR test file.

    wget www.eicar.org/download/eicar.com.txt

  3. Verify the detection in the log file.

    The default location of the log file is /var/McAfee/ens/log/tp/mfeoasmgr.log

  4. Verify your Threat Prevention installation using this log file:

    /tmp/ensltp-standalone-setup.log