Have you ever thought how reliable and efficient is your current installed antivirus, so that you can trust it even in critical situations ? Is your antivirus working properly ? The only thing you might be following with your antivirus is just an upgrade to latest virus database.
If you don’t know how to test your antivirus effectiveness, then don’t worry we will be carrying out an effectiveness test for your antivirus today. The verification test for antivirus effectiveness is called EICAR Test. This is a test which is being performed by almost all antivirus developers to verify their antivirus software is working properly or not. Here is a method how you can also carry out ECIAR Test with your antivirus, just follow :
Perform EICAR Test for your Antivirus:
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Open a new document (wordpad or notepad) from Start menu.
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Type the following code, and save your file with a name as virustestfile.com
X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
3. Now execute your antivirus and perform a simple scan on particular location where virustestfile.com resides.
After a scan your antivirus detects the file as a virus or unusual files something, then relax back as your antivirus is working properly, If it does not then you have to find out some alternatives in order to protect your data and loss.
