How to check if your Anti Virus is working [ Antivirus ]
Most of the time we just install the Anti Virus or the anti Malware programs and relax that they are working fine and one fine morning you see things not working and finally you realize that its your anti virus program which was not working at all. Here is a small test which you can do in case you are not sure if your anti virus program is working fine or not.
#1 Open Notepad and paste this string into it ( without double quotes )
“X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* ”
#2 Save it and as soon as you do your antivirus real time protection should be able to detect it. In case you have disabled the real time protection run a scan for this file.
This file actually is a dummy virus which simulates like a virus which is provided by EICAR for distribution as the “EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File”, The file is a legitimate DOS program, and produces sensible results when run (it prints the message “EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!”). You can read more on this at EICAR Antivirus Test File
Antivirus test String
For those of you who say your auto scan doesn’t detect it… I have tried on a few anti-virus… If your anti-virus doesn’t scan text files under real time then it will not detect it until you do a system scan. To make it detect it real-time you need to tell your real-time scan to scan all files, not just “smart” file scan. You can test it by saving as an exe or other format that is on the auto detect file list.
Posted on 3rd February 2008 by Ashish Mohta , A Professional Tech blogger, Editor and Writer who talks about solving day to day problems of people who use computer. He also writes on How to use the applications like Office, PC tips, Online tools,Browsers and more. All posts by Ashish Mohta | Connect with me @ Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Stumble
Wow… neat trick! My antivirus software (NOD32 v.3.0.669.0 with virus database up-to-date) has indeed detected it and quarantined it! Cool! Thanks for the tip, Ashish. \m/
thanks…
As soon as I saved it, my Avast detected it. It’s so cool, man . . .
yeah
norton internet security 2009 blocked it
neat trick:D
It is just a small trick to test but it’s essential
How about firewall and spyware?
excellent dude
Panda 2009 for Windows 7 caught it!
Its awesome man its working i appreciate ur work
Windows Live One Care caught it. awesome!!
McAfee Caught It Too….
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 caught it and could quarantine it, but i made it delete it. Thanks
I saved it on my desktop. PC Tools internet security did not catch it until I manually ran a scan pointing it to user profile/desktop location.
WOW!!! Most World No.1 AVG Internet Security 8.5 2009
WOW!!!! AVG Internet Security 8.5 2009 caught it and could quarantine it, but i made it delete it. Thanks
Nice tool for checking the anti-virus. Thank you. I feel better now, because I use the Microsoft Security Essentials and it detected it, suspended it and gave me the choice to clean computer and it quickly deleted it.
my bit defender anti virus 2010 not even warn me about this virus ;( ;(
instead it deleted it instantly
Norton internet security 2010 works perfect. It says Auto-protect has blocked security risk EICAR Test String. Risk status: High
Best thing about this new version is its very light. This is a kick ass stuff for all those people who experienced slogging old versions.
Spyware Doctor detect it.
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware detect it.
Bit Defender total security 2010 instantly delete it.
mmmm sad
my bitdefender 2010 wasnt able to detect it, even after i did a check.
My Bitdefender 2010 total security detected it and immediately moved it to quarantine.
Microsoft Security Essentials got it!
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