12. January 2007

Test your Anti-Virus Integrity and Power

                                    
                                            Do you doubt that your Anti-Virus is not efficient? Want to test the Integrity and Power of your Anti-Virus ? Here is a simple way to do this. The below step is about creating a fake malware signature which makes your anti-virus to detect it. Please don’t be panic about this experiment because it just a fake malware creation and it has nothing to attack your computer.

  • Right click your desktop and select > New > Text Document or click Start > Run and type notepad.
  • A new text document is created in your desktop, open the newly created text document if it is not opened.
  • Copy the following text (Excluding Quotes).       

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

  • Now Save the notepad with any file name and close it. Open your Anti-virus and Scan the notepad file you edited now.

Your Anti-Virus should now Alert you about a Malware called EICAR Test-Not Virus!!. Congratulations on using a working Anti-virus. Note just delete the notepad or follow your Anti-Virus Instructions.

Thanks: Babu.

6 Comments

1. MyAvatars 0.2 Thilak on 13. January 2007 at 12:04 am

When I first read the title, I taught “This must be something complicated”, but this is damn.. damn.. simple !!

Great Tip.

2. MyAvatars 0.2 Vinay S Pandey on 13. January 2007 at 12:24 am

Sankar, Am Tested This With Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 The Result I Got Is “No Threats Detected”

3. MyAvatars 0.2 Vinay S Pandey on 13. January 2007 at 12:31 am

Sorry Sankar For My Earlier Post On This, Infact I Have Done A Mistake As I Have Taken The Line With ” “, After Deleting The Same It Shows The Perfect Result With My Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0

Thanks Again For Such A Simple Test Of Antivirus

4. MyAvatars 0.2 Shankar Ganesh on 13. January 2007 at 8:42 pm

Cool!
It WORKS man!
Tried it McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise.

5. MyAvatars 0.2 khmerlyric on 22. February 2007 at 12:34 pm

After I saved the file my Kaspersky is delete it automatically.
Thanks you guy!

6. MyAvatars 0.2 chris on 09. January 2008 at 3:39 pm

good tool! my Norton 360 works and have bitten the file i saved

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