The Anti-Virus Test

Open notepad and paste this:

Code:

Save it as eicar.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 recognise this as a threat (even tough it’s completely harmless)

thanks for this useful check for antivirus.

thanks