Most of us always think about the
best antivirus for our pc. But sometimes the antivirus might not be working
well or correctly. Sometimes you wan to check the working of your antivirus but
the question is how to check whether the antivirus is working correctly or not.
Today I am going to tell you about a small test which can be used by users to
test the working of your antivrus software. The test is called as EICAR test
which can be used to test any antivirus and was developed by European
Institute of Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR). So now you don’t need a
computer virus to test the working of your antivirus you can simple do so by
following the steps given below.
If the antivirus is working correctly
then it should give a warning or alert and delete the file immediately. If no
such warning or alert message is displayed then you either need to re-install
your antivirus or change the antivirus. Important thing to note here is that
most of the antivirus will display a warning message in step 1 itself and will
remove the file.
1. First of all open a notepad and
copy the following code into the notepad and save it as anything.txt.
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