Want to check wether your antivirus is running properly or not .

Perform the following

Open an notepad and type

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

Save it as eicar.com.

The Anti-Virus should stop you (if it does that means its working).

Don't worry about it. European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR) have got people to program Anti-Virus to recognise this as a threat (even tough it's completely harmless)...

If not then dont worry the program dosent harm your computer just install a new anti virus.