Check how good is your Antivirus
Posted by sai | Posted in Security, Tips and Tricks | Posted on 25-10-2008
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Surely,all windows users will have an Anti virus installed on system,due to bugs and security holes that are discovered in windows platform every day.
If so,the question is how can we check that our antivrus is sufficiently powerful and effective to prevent infection.
Here is a way we can try to check out how good our Antivirus is?
1. Open notepad. Start -> Run-> notepad and write this code
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
and save with name virus.com.
2. i prefer you to save it in desktop.
3. Then open the the file virus.com and if your antivirus find it your antivirus is Ok and you can keep it , but if it doesn't recognize it like a threat i prefer you to change your antivirus. Try it don't be afraid , it doesn't damage any part of computer.
My Antivirus caught it.. how about yours??
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