Check if your Antivirus is Working Properly?
What do you think ?? How effectively does your Antivirus work for your computer Security ??
Well there is a simple ways to find it out. Infact this trick is really amazing and surprising as this trick will check your antivirus working properly or not.
To Test your Anti-Virus do the follwing :
Open Notepad (start > all programs > accessories > notepad)
Now Copy this code in the text file….
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*Then save it with the name fakevirus.exe
Now, If the File got Detected/Deleted Immediately .. It means your Antivirus is working Properly.
Info : This test virus was developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) to provide an easy (and safe!) way to test whether your anti-virus software is working, and see how it reacts when a virus is detected. It is supported by most leading vendors, such as IBM, McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec/Norton.
Open Notepad (start > all programs > accessories > notepad)
Now Copy this code in the text file….
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*Then save it with the name fakevirus.exe
Now, If the File got Detected/Deleted Immediately .. It means your Antivirus is working Properly.
Info : This test virus was developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) to provide an easy (and safe!) way to test whether your anti-virus software is working, and see how it reacts when a virus is detected. It is supported by most leading vendors, such as IBM, McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec/Norton.
No comments:
Post a Comment