Are you using an Anti-Virus program to protect your computer? Have you ever tested your anti-virus if it works properly? Here is a simple and safe trick to test your anti-virus program if its configured properly.

First Launch, ms NOTEPAD.

















Now copy/paste the following text on NOTEPAD

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Now click FILE menu then SAVE AS and type on the filename box - fakevirus.exe and then click SAVE














Now if your anti virus program is configured properly it will detect it as a virus. My Avast anti virus detected it immediately after i click Save..

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Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package. Avast includes the following components: On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant messaging--ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filters all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner--scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.

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