EICAR testing on VirusTotal

Here's the results of testing EICAR (inside a simple txt file) in different file formats using VirusTotal. In order of most detected to least. Most of the ones where they were not detected were inside Office files. Interestingly, Malwarebytes fails on a least 7 of the compressed file formats. A recent AV-Test.org result indicates a similar lack of protection.

• .txt
• 58/60: Missing popular ones: Malwarebytes
• .zip
• 51/57: Missing popular ones: Malwarebytes, Symantec
• .gz
• 44/56: Missing popular ones: Ad-Aware, Avast, Malwarebytes, Symantec
• .tar
• 43/56: Missing popular ones: Ad-Aware, Avast, Malwarebytes, Symantec
• .bz2
• 43/59: Missing popular ones: Ad-Aware, Avast, Comodo, Malwarebytes
• .7z
• 41/57: Missing popular ones: Ad-Aware, F-Prot, Malwarebytes, Symantec, Panda
• .xz
• 29/59: Missing popular ones: Ad-Aware, Avast, Comodo, F-Prot, Malwarebytes, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, Webroot
• .wim
• 16/59
• .xlsx
• 2/57
• .docx
• 1/58
• .pptx
• 1/58
• .pub
• 1/56
• .rtf
• Failed to scan at all