Next,
we are going to see how to check if my antivirus is running correctly. It
is very important to protect the PC with an Antivirus, Firewall, Anti
Spyware and Anti Spam that is responsible for protecting us when browsing
the internet.
When
it comes to browsing different websites, downloading files, watching videos,
etc. We are exposing ourselves to all kinds of malware. For this
reason, it is essential to have a good antivirus to protect us at all times
from this class of malicious programs.
Although
it is very likely that you have an antivirus
installed. But are you sure it works correctly? Luckily, there are
reliable companies that allow us to carry out different tests to
check if our antivirus is protecting us efficiently.
How to know if my antivirus is working
What
we can do to check if our antivirus is working correctly is to download a fake
virus. Amtso takes care of providing us with fake virus download links that
are blacklisted by antivirus.
It
will act as if it were a malware that endangers our computer. However, we
could say that this is “performance” since it will not actually endanger the PC
since, as we mentioned earlier, it is a fake virus to check if your antivirus works
properly.
The
list of fake viruses provided by AMTSO is as follows:
Detects
drive-by downloads of malware:
in this case it measures the level of effectiveness of the antivirus against
downloads that we have not made intentionally.
Detects
manually downloaded malware:
what it does is help us to check if the antivirus is capable of detecting any
kind of virus that we ourselves download from the internet.
Detects
potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs): it tests the antivirus in every way to see if it is
capable of blocking malicious programs.
Is
connected to a cloud-based lookup system: verifies that the antivirus we use is
capable of using the cloud to improve the level of malware detection.
Detect
compressed malware:
what it does is download a virus which is compressed in order to see how the
antivirus behaves and in how long it detects it.
Detects
phishing pages: there
are many web pages that are phishing, what it does is load sites known for this
to see how long the antivirus takes to block them.
Something
that we must make quite clear, again. This is a test, which means that
none of these tests endanger our computer. These are safe tests to verify
the operation of our antimalware.
How to check if my antivirus works
correctly
Another
thing you can do is try the test to verify the ports that we have opened. It
is extremely useful to verify how we have the configuration of the Windows firewall and
the router. We also have another very useful tool that tests our
antivirus program against ransomware quite effectively.
To
finish this long article we must clarify that it is not recommended to have
two antiviruses on the same PC. Since you will not be able to improve the
security of your computer, quite the opposite. By having two antiviruses
on the same PC, the only thing you get is more vulnerabilities than you
could imagine, it is very counterproductive. The reason?
The
consumption of resources is one, evidently having two programs running in the
background the consumption of resources of the computer is doubled, which means
that it will work much slower in every way, making it necessary to clean,
optimize and accelerate the PC .
They
also block each other, this is normal. When one of the Antiviruses tries
to scan another file or the two try each other. They will not be able to
do it, which will cause said file not to be analyzed, putting your computer at
risk
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