If you think that your anti virus is not working well then this trick will definitely work to know that your anti virus is capable or not to catch a virus or not
Follow this easy steps
1 - Open notepad
2 + Type this code as “
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* “
3 - Don’t type anything . Click on save as and save it by name as ” virus.com” on desktop
Now run your anti virus program & scan that file
If your program detect as virus then it is good if not you can deiced it
btw, i Tested that with both eset and Microsoft Security Essential, and they detected it even as .txt files
Enjoy