How to Check Your Antivirus is Working?

Here is a common method to determine if your antivirus program is working properly or not. Some of you may know it already, but for the beginner (noobs) this can be informative.

 

► Open Notepad and copy/paste the Code given below.

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

► The text should be in one horizontal line.

► Then save file as "checkantivirus.com" including quotation-marks.

► After some seconds saving this file, your Anti-Virus should notify you with the message that this file is infected with a virus asking permission for its deletion/clean.

► This file is secure and it’s not going to infect your computer in any way. It is a standard text developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR). Every Anti-Virus is programmed to load this file as a virus.

► If your Anti-Virus did not detect this file as a virus, a program will appear as DOS window with this text EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE.

► If this happens then you should probably find a better Anti-Virus. It means that your PC might already be infected with viruses and your current Anti-Virus does not recognize them.

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79 Percent of Mobile Malware Targets Android!

An overwhelming 79 percent of all mobile malware threats target devices running Google's Android operating system, according to a joint unclassified memo from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.

"Android is the world's most widely used mobile operating system and continues to be a primary target for malware due to its market share and open source architecture," notes the July 23 memo[PDF], which was obtained and published online by the website Public Intelligence.

In comparison, just 0.7 percent of mobile malware is designed to take advantage of Apple's iOS, according to the document, which cites data from 2012. Another 19 percent targets Nokia's aging Symbian platform while 0.3 percent affects Windows Mobile and BlackBerry, and the remaining 0.7 percent takes advantage of other mobile operating systems.

A major part of the problem on Android is that so many users are running old versions riddled with security vulnerabilities. The memo cites industry stats finding that 44 percent of Android users were running Android Gingerbread (version 2.3.3 through 2.3.7), which was released in 2011 and contains a number of flaws that were patched in more recent versions.

Google's Android 4.3: What's New?

The problem isn't quite that extreme anymore, as some users have updated to newer versions since those numbers were released. Even so, as of Google's most recent stats, Gingerbread was running on 33.1 percent of Android devices while the even older Android Froyo, Eclair, and Donut versions together accounted for 3.8 percent.

"The growing use of mobile devices by federal, state, and local authorities makes it more important than ever to keep mobile OS patched and up-to-date," the memo states.

Nearly half of the malicious apps circulating today on older Android OS devices are SMS text message trojans, which send messages to premium-rate numbers without the user's consent, resulting in "exorbitant charges." Other known security threats facing mobile devices include rootkits, which silently log a user's location, keystrokes, and passwords, and fake Google Play domains, which are set up by crybercriminals to trick users into installing malware.

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Kaspersky Internet Security 2014!

 

Install Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 Trial

The first thing I have to do is install the 30 trial day of Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 or AntiVirus 2014. So, click one of the next buttons to chose what product you prefer. When you click it. it will start downloading the Setup. When completed, run the .exe file and install it.

 

Download : Kaspersky Internet Security 2014
Download : Kaspersky AntiVirus 2014 
Download : Kaspersky Serial Keys

Activating 3 months trial

The Kaspersky that you installed in your PC, only has 30 days to use. But I have one good new. There is available a key that provides you 91 days trial. How I do that?
→ Click in Enter activation code
→ Click in Activate application
→ Enter the next code. Select it, right-click, Copy. Then in KIS windows, right-click in box and Paste
The code is: QCGUH-J8FF6-33WGA-UBY62
→ Click Activate
→ Wait a moment ... when done it will appear a message saying that activation was successfully done. You have now 91 days to use Kaspersky.

After 91 days ...

Now is time to use a Trial Reset program. Before you download it, you may disable the Kaspersky Protection. For that, right-click in Kaspersky icon in notification area like the next image. It will make appear a context menu. Click Pause Protection. It will appear a new window. Select the first option and then more than 5 minutes. You can also chose the third option Pause. Is the same. Click in Pause Protection button

Now, we have to disable the Self-Defence
In the main window, go to Settings < Additional < Self-Defense
Uncheck the box and click Accept in the MessageBox that will show up.

 
Right-click in Kaspersky icon in notification area like the next image. It will make appear a context menu. Click Exit.

 

Before you continue, save and close all your work
Now we are ready to reset the trial of Kaspersky. Download the activator here, unzip and run the .exe file
Remember it must be run as administrator. The activator is in russian but no problem. Is easy :)
Click the first button like in image. It will appear a MessageBox. When you click YES and Windows will restart.

 

Now that windows restarted, open the Main Window of Kaspersky. It will say that you don´t have a licence. Easy! Paste again the key of 91 days trial and you will get it again. Follow the steps I showed in Activating 3 months trial section.

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