Most of us always think about the best antivirus for our computer. But sometimes the antivirus might not be working well or correctly. Sometimes you wan to check the working of your antivirus but the query is how to check whether the antivirus is working correctly or not. Today I am going to tell you about a small check which can be used by users to check the working of your antivrus program. The check is called as EICAR check which can be used to check any antivirus and was developed by European Institute of Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR). So now you don't require a computer virus to check the working of your antivirus you can simple do so by following the steps given below.
1. First of all open a notepad and copy the following code into the notepad and save it as "anything.txt"
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
2. Rename the file from New Text Document.TXT to myfile.com
3. Now run the antivirus scan on this myfile.com file.
If the antivirus is working correctly then it will give a warning or alert and delete the file immediately. If no such warning or alert message is displayed then you either need to re-install your antivirus or modify the antivirus. Important thing to note here is that most of the antivirus will display a warning message in step one itself and will remove the file.