I wanna test if my anti-virus program's strong enough

[kwfine]

Hi Raymond,
do you know if there's any website which provides fake virus for users to test if their
anti-virus program's strong enough to defend their PCs?

[pvg]

yeah there is try this

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_000.html

[kwfine]

Originally Posted by pvg

yeah there is try this

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_000.html

Many Thanks to you, pvg!
In the web site, the author said:

If your anti-virus product should fail to prevent you from running the file, it will simply display the text "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE" in a DOS box. No harm will have been done, but you should probably consider using a better anti-virus product, because if it had been a real virus, your computer would by now be infected!

Does he mean that even if a file is embeded with a real virus, it still does no harm to user's PC unless the user double click it?
COuld you help clarify this please, pvg?

[pvg]

I think,

most virus activate them self but some of them, like zip file you would have to open it, to activate it but I'm not sure.

[Raymond]

It depends on the virus... Some needs to run to infect and some don't.

[blackrose]

As far as I know there is no fake viruses. Thanks pvg. ESET smart security is working great.

[Michael Y]

Awsome,pvg!
Nice to know that AVG stil works.