Test your Anti-Virus

jonty.

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Open notepad and paste this:

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



Save it as eicar.com (Chage the file extension as .com)


Your Anti-virus will then either not let you save it of when you have saved it will remove it for you.

Don't worry about it. European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR) have got people to program Anti-Virus to recognize this as a threat (even tough it's completely harmless)