Check If Your Antivirus Is Alive Or Dead
by kalai[ Edit ] 2009-11-07 17:30:32
Open notepad and paste this:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
Save it as eicar.com. The Anti-Virus should stop you (if it does that means its working).
Don't worry about it. European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR) have got people to program Anti-Virus to recognise this as a threat (even tough it's completely harmless)...]
