Test Your Antivirus Is Working Or Not (EICAR test)

Sometimes we are in doubt that is my Antivirus working fine ? To verify that your antivirus is working fine we may use a method called EICAR testing.The EICAR is a file, developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs to a virus.Actually Eicar file is not a virus but all antivirus treat Eicar file as virus file.So we can use Eicar to test antivirus responsiveness.To check antivirus with Eicar method first we need to create a Eicar file,
How to create Eicar file:

• Create a text file and copy or enter this text inside it  X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
• Save that file as Eicar.exe (In notepad save as >>Save as type : All files>>Filename:Eicar.exe>>Save)

After saving if you see a virus warning that Eicar.exe is infected as EICAR TEST FILE then you can be sure that your antivirus is working fine else click that file Eicar.exe if you don't see a virus warning then you can be 100% sure your Antivirus is Disabled or Damaged.Replace your Antivirus immediately because you have no virus protection currently.
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