Check if Your Antivirus Is Working Properly or Not

Is your Antivirus Working ?? What do you think ?? How effectively does it work for your security ?? Well there is a simple ways to find it out. In fact this trick is really amazing and surprising.

To Check if your AntiVirus is Working :

• Open 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 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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Post by Debajyoti Das