Test your Anti Virus

This is a fun little test of your AV software.

Copy and paste the following into Notepad

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

Save the file and your Anti Virus is doing it's job, you'll see the result.

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This is completely harmless. If your anti virus doesn't detect and remove or quarantine the file, you can simply delete it without any repercussions what-so-ever. You should also definately get a new anti virus program

Lol...Avast 5 picked it up straight away!

MSE picked it up too (:

its been there since ages...eicar | THE ANTI-VIRUS OR ANTI-MALWARE TEST FILE

Mitch656 said:

My Avast 5 dident pick it up D: i put it in notepad and save it as random

malexous said:

Mitch656 said:

My Avast 5 dident pick it up D: i put it in notepad and save it as random

Did you double-click/open the file?

He shouldn't have to. As soon as he clicks "Save" it should be detected