{"id":44503,"date":"2013-07-02T19:12:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=44503"},"modified":"2013-07-02T19:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:17:36","slug":"how-to-know-if-your-anti-virus-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/how-to-know-if-your-anti-virus-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know If Your Anti Virus Is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>by Jim Hillier for Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n<h3>How to Know If Your Anti Virus Is Working<\/h3>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">Our good friends at Dave&#8217;s Computer Tips point out a great (free) online service that puts your Anti -irus software through a serious of tests that help confirm that your protection is set up for maximum security.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>How would you like a simple way to check and see if your anti-virus program is up to scratch? Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amtso.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO)<\/a> has recently launched a free online service which provides just such a facility. The AMTSO service includes 5 tools to help users verify that their anti-virus protection is working and\/or configured properly.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/amtso-av-test-.png\" alt=\"amtso-av-test-\" width=\"688\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/amtso-av-test-.png 688w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/amtso-av-test--300x106.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p>Even though I am pretty sure the checks are primarily aimed at commercial anti-virus solutions and not really meant for freeware editions, I was keen to test them out on my long time favorite free anti-virus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davescomputertips.com\/2013\/06\/check-to-see-if-your-anti-virus-is-working-properly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These excerpts are shared with permission from davescomputertips.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/virustest150.jpg\" alt=\"virustest150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our good friends at Dave&#8217;s Computer Tips point out a great (free) online service that puts your Anti -irus software through a serious of tests that help confirm that your protection is set up for maximum security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[847],"class_list":["post-44503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daves-computer-tips","tag-anti-virus-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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