To test your antivirus in full safety, you can use
the file of Eicar test. This file is detected as a virus by the
antiviruses but it is not one, it does not contain
any viral code. If the false virus is detected, it is that your
antivirus is active and protects you.
Open Notepad
Then recopy the following character string in the
Notepad:
“X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*”
Now save it and scan it by ur antivirus software..
If your antivirus is correctly activated, it must
then alert you instantaneously presence of the Eicar
virus.
Then ask your antivirus to remove the file. In my
case I had installed BitDefender Anti Virus and file
was recognize and removed automatically without
any additional action from me.
If your antivirus does not see anything, than you
have a problem. It could be because of two reasons:
permanent protection is badly configured or there
were some problems during antivirus installation. Then
you have to read documentation of your software to
correct this problem.
If the false virus is still not detected, you must
then seriously think of changing anti-virus software.
