How To Test Your Antivirus Strength?

Have you ever thought about the strength of your  Antivrus? Te great threat faced by us today  while using PC is the attack of the VIRUS , Which is actually Virtual Information Resource Under Seige. This has spread all over the world destroying Millions of PCs. The only way in front of us to stop the attack of VIRUS upto a limit  is the proper usage of Antivirus. But what will happen if the Antivirus is not properly working and we don't know about it. In such cases , we are exposed to the attack of VIRUS.

I am here with a simple test for Detemining the strength of your Antivirus.Just follow theses steps:

Go to Desktop > Notepad

TYPE
X50!P%@AP[4/P2X54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Save this as   AVTEST.com

Now immediately after creating this file , if the Antivirus detects the file as a VIRUS, there you go! Your Antivirus is Properly Working and good in  condition. If not ,the antivirus has to be tested. It may not be properly working. Be sure that you delete the file you have created earlier permanently from your PC.