Test if your anti-virus is active?

Last update on August 5, 2009 12:55 PM by jak58
Published by deri58

Test if your anti-virus is active?







If you are unsure whether your antivirus is active or not, there exist a tool detected by most anti-virus as a virus but however this software run a DOS program that only print a message to your screen as per below but depending on your anti-virus.


http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar_com.zip

However please take into account that if your anti-virus let you download the file and unzip same. This mean that your anti-virus has whether been disactivated or expired.