EASY WAy to Check Your AntiVirus Is Working or Not

[Ethan.mackloy]

Today,I am tell about a common method by
which you check that your antivirus work
properly or not. Open Notepad and copy the Code given
below.

X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-
STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

It is a standard text developed by the
European Institute for Computer Anti-virus
Research (EICAR). Every Anti-Virus is
programmed to load this file as a virus.

Save as this file by checkantivirus.com It is not necessary you save this file by
given name but use only this extension..
.com
After some seconds saving this file, your
Anti-Virus should come with the message
that this file is infected with virus asking
permission for its deletion/clean. This file is secure and it is not going to any
infect in your system.

If your antivirus remove this file then it is
doing work properly otherwise you update
your av

 

[superd]

mere me toh kuch nhi aaya aur meine manually scan for virus kiya to bhi threats-0 aa rha hai

 

[BUDDHI]

not detecting as threat nice copy paste if ur copy pasting then post something which can be useful for dm members/for us.

 

[nehilnext]

yar work toh kar hi raha hoga waise bhi update toh roj hi haota hai

 

[Sujalraj]

Not threat dectect bro

 

[priyadarshan]

i dont under stand
how to creat this file

 

[random007]

Today,I am tell about a common method by
which you check that your antivirus work
properly or not. Open Notepad and copy the Code given
below.

X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-
STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

It is a standard text developed by the
European Institute for Computer Anti-virus
Research (EICAR). Every Anti-Virus is
programmed to load this file as a virus.

Save as this file by checkantivirus.com It is not necessary you save this file by
given name but use only this extension..
.com
After some seconds saving this file, your
Anti-Virus should come with the message
that this file is infected with virus asking
permission for its deletion/clean. This file is secure and it is not going to any
infect in your system.

If your antivirus remove this file then it is
doing work properly otherwise you update
your av

Shouldn't we have to save it as a bat file??

 

[Ethan.mackloy]

Shouldn't we have to save it as a bat file??

yes
bat file