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Most of you probably have anti-virus software on your computer. If you do, good job; however, are you sure it works? Let’s do a quick test.


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

  1. Open Notepad and paste the above line into it.

    anti-virus

  2. Save the file and real time protection should immediately find the file. (If you have real time protection turned off, you will need to scan the file.)

    anti-virus

  3. If this doesn’t work for you, make sure your virus checker is up to date and working.

This file is a dummy virus, which simulates a virus. This string 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!”).

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11 Responses to “Test to See if Your Antivirus Software Works (Safe)”

  1. Tim R Says:

    Nice, mine’s working!

  2. __o00o___C00D___o00o Says:

    Niiiiiiiice!!! I could scare some people wit this

  3. Dan Says:

    Nice post man. I love this site. Good job!

  4. J.C. Says:

    Maybe I missed it but you forgot to mention to save as .exe
    or at least mine didn’t detect it until I did and that isn’t something I expect most folks to know.

    Love the site - great work!

  5. Rich Says:

    Thanks for the tip J.C. Try saving it as a txt/doc/rtf … or anything for that matter, and it will still catch it — which is good news for us!

  6. Angad Says:

    Yup, It Works with my Norton Antivirus 2008 too!

  7. [AnubiS] Says:

    Works perfectly with Avast 4.8. thanks for the tip.

  8. Michael D Says:

    Tested on AVG and it works!

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