How to check whether your virus guard is working properly

         In present you can find so many virus guards or anti virus programs. But you don't know that whether your virus guard detect and delete all the viruses, spyware, trojans, worms and other malware functions. Some virus guard detect some files as malwares. But same ma not detect them. Therefore it is very difficult to find best antivirus program. Therefore here i am giving you a small test for your virus guard. If your Virus guard pass the test , your virus guard application working properly. You can test effectiveness of your anti virus program  using this simple trick .
Follow the steps below to know more:

1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy the code give below in the notepad file:


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

3. Save it as eicar.com

As soon as you save this file, check whether your anti virus program will detect the file (virus) immediately and will attempt to delete it. If this happens then your Antivirus is working properly. If not, then its time to look for some other reliable anti virus program.
I am using Avast anti virus program and it detect above eicar.com file as follows