Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Check your Antivirus Working properly or not

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.



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