How to know if my antivirus works

Making an Eicar test is the answer that will allow you to know with certainty if your antivirus works. To have an idea of ​​its reliability, you should know that this test has been developed by the European Research Institute of Computer Antivirus. Based on this system, in this article of .com we answer your question about how to know if my antivirus works .

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First of all, we explain how this Eicar test works . It is based on a text file that lets you know without any risk to your computer if your antivirus program is running.

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To do the Eicar test you must open your Notepad, or a similar program, and write the following text :

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

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Next, you have to save the file that you just created with the .com extension.

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If your antivirus works correctly, you should detect this file as malicious instantly. The same thing has to happen if you perform a scan with your antivirus program.

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Probably some antivirus will not even let you save the file and others will allow it, but then they will alert you that it is malicious and they will erase it.