Is your Antivirus properly? Learn how to check its funcationality.

Is your antivirus program working properly? Ever wondered how to check the functionality of your antivirus. Well below described is an easy way to check your antivirus. The process is called EICAR test which works on any antivirus program. It is developed by European Institute of Computer Antivirus Research .This process can be used by Antivirus programmers to test the working of their antivirus program. To test your antivirus follow the steps given below-

Open Notepad and copy paste the following code:-
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*



Now save it as my file.com
If the antivirus installed on your computer is working properly a message must be displayed by your antivirus saying that the file is a virus, and the file  should deleted immediatly, which means your antivirus is working properly. If in case your antivirus program doesn't detect it as a virus, you must change your antivirus program.