Is Your Antivirus Program Working? Easy, Safe Test for Anti Virus Programs! • 09.15.11
Basically, this is a totally safe string of text that your AV (antivirus program) will recognize as a virus. Its used to tell if AV’s are working properly. If it doesn’t work out, you might want to consider getting another AV. Here is the text below. Be sure to get rid of all spaces between characters otherwise it will not work and may give you a “false positive” (You think your AV is not working when it is) X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* Good luck!
