Is your Antivirus working?

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Is your Antivirus Working ?? What do you think ?? How effectively does it work for your security ?? Well there is a simple ways to find it out. In fact this trick is really amazing and surprising.

To Check if your AntiVirus is Working :

Open Notepad.

Now Copy this code in the text file….

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

Then save it with the name fakevirus.exe

Now, If the File got Detected Immediately .. It means your Antivirus is working Properly.

Info : This test virus was developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) to provide an easy (and safe!) way to test whether your anti-virus software is working, and see how it reacts when a virus is detected. It is supported by most leading vendors, such as IBM, McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec/Norton.

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Kiran Kishore, Mumbai City North Division

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