Test your Anti-Virus Integrity and Power
Posted on 12. Jan, 2007 by Sankaranand in Tutorials
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.
Thilak
Jan 13th, 2007
When I first read the title, I taught “This must be something complicated”, but this is damn.. damn.. simple !!
Great Tip.
Vinay S Pandey
Jan 13th, 2007
Sankar, Am Tested This With Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 The Result I Got Is “No Threats Detected”
Vinay S Pandey
Jan 13th, 2007
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
Shankar Ganesh
Jan 13th, 2007
Cool!
It WORKS man!
Tried it McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise.
khmerlyric
Feb 22nd, 2007
After I saved the file my Kaspersky is delete it automatically.
Thanks you guy!
chris
Jan 9th, 2008
good tool! my Norton 360 works and have bitten the file i saved