Posted by Now a days tonnes of free antivirus software available on the internet and every of them claims to detect and remove malicious viruses from your computer. usually, most of these softwares are available for free; but despite their claims to protect your PC, usually they are worthless. Unless you buy premium antivirus softwares like kaspersky, Mcafee, ESET, Norton & etc you won’t be 100% sure whether you are being protected by the malicious viruses or not.
There is one easy test to verify whether your anti-virus software is up to its mark or not. In this tutorial we will lecture you how to create a fake (dummy) virus and then run it on your system to see if your antivirus detects anything or not. Here is what you have to do; Its only for testing purpose please don’t use it to bad purpose.
- Go to Notepad and open it,
- Copy following code onto your notepad,
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* - Save the file on the desktop with the file any file name you like, for instance; malicious viruses.txt. The file that you have just created is actually an EICAR test file, developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, to test the response of computer antivirus programs.
- Now re-open the file. If your anti-virus displays a warning sign and closes the text file, then rest assured that it is working fine. Here is what my antivirus – NOD32 – displayed when it detected this file and neutralized it.
Neutralize all viruses NOD32 neutralized EICAR file NOD32
Did your anti virus detected the dummy virus? In case you are interested in the details, you can read more about this here.
