How to test your Antivirus.

Copy and paste the code below into notepad:

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

(The text should be in one line.)Save file as "checkantivirus.com" including quotation-marksA few seconds after saving this file, your Anti-Virus should come with the message that this file is infected with virus asking permission for its deletion/clean.*** This file is secure and its not going to infect your computer in whatever way. It is a standard text developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR). Every Anti-Virus is programed to load this file as a virus.***If your Anti-Virus will not detect this file as a virus, a program will appear as DOS window with this text EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE.
If this happens then you should probably find some other Anti-Virus up to date as you are not fully protected.For example,
As soon as i saved it...
BOOM!

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.Mine blocked it right off as well that was pretty cool.

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.Mine say hi to it. ;D

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.Avira detected straight away
:D

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.Huh. NOD32 detected straight away, interesting.

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.Cool!very interesting.

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.problem is a bollocks AV could still be programmed to recognise this. Its a double edged sword.

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.
Cool

Re: [Tutorial] - How to test your Antivirus.

Loonylion · #7problem is a bollocks AV could still be programmed to recognise this. Its a double edged sword.

It did

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Loonylion · #7problem is a bollocks AV could still be programmed to recognise this. Its a double edged sword.

That may be but its still handy none the less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

Thanks for the info

thanks for the help

Thanks! Nod32 deleted it after I press save.

dam mine didnt detect shit lol
even when i scaned it could be coz it knows i made it or something so idunno

Replying to #15

or because its not a proper antivirus. I would change it.

Yay! Norton doesn't suck!When I finish that subscription, it's off to Kapersky to test my 6 month subscription.
Then AVG if it doesn't detect it.
THEN if that doesn't work...
I'll try nod32, Avira, Webroot, or AntiVir Guard.AND don't tell me how Norton eats up RAM and VM (Virtual Memory). I have four GB of RAM and half of that is free, and my VM is 1GB free. IDC how much PageFile I have because IDK what it does.

norton does suck. Just because it detects the test virus does not mean its any good.

I know.
I meant it works.
It detects someone attacking my computer with a portscan, and I once downloaded a virus by accident with an alleged Registry Cleaner that messed up my internet connection, then Norton killed it.PLUS IDFC about the VM and RAM, like I said before.
I have a lot on my HP Pavilion.On my old Fujitsu computer, however, I use AVG.
Because it only had 1 gig of Ram, and it had hardware issues...And on my XP, I can barely even use that, only 512 MB if RAM.I can't wait till my Windows 7 gets here, then I could thrash Norton.

Norton has extremely poor detection rates and even worse disinfection rates.