How to check if your antivirus is working properly ?

How to test your Virus  guard without a real virus that can harm your computer ?
easy,just follow the steps below

• Activate your anti-virus shield
• Open Notepad
• paste the code below

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

• Now save it as CheckingAntivirus.COM in your desktop ( or anywhere you can find easily)

If your virus guard is a professional one it won’t even let you to save the file..But some virus guards do let you save it, and attacks it right after you save it.
So if you get any message saying a virus found, your Virus guard works fine.