Trick To Check If Antivirus Is Protecting Or Not

An Antivirus is an important software in computer as it protects your computer from harmful viruses but we are not always sure that it is protecting our computer.To Know That if your antivirus is protecting your computer follow the given steps :-


STEP 1 > Make sure your antivirus is installed and is working.
STEP 2 > Open notepad and paste the below code in it.
                        X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

STEP 3 > Now save this file,now as soon as you will hit save a virus warning will popup stopping you from saving this file as it has been detected as virus.

 

STEP 4 > So if you get this virus warning that means your Antivirus is working perfectly and it is detecting any kind of virus affecting your pc.