There's a standard test virus here:
http://www.rexswain.com/eicar.html
Do you really mean Windows 7.0?
I would take a look through the program menu-most AV programs will have that
phrase in their names.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Lewis C. Emerson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I had to move recently and took and reinstalled  my took my Dell desktop
> using, Windows 7.0 Professional Edition, and an Acer laptop, with Windows
> 7.0 Home Edition, with me.  Both are now connected to the Internet - the
> Dell via a hard wire cable to the modem and the Acer via a wireless router
> also connected to the same modem.
> Every time I boot the Dell I get a message something like "Your computer
> may be at risk as no virus [protection is found.  Click the balloon below to
> correct this problem".  When I do this I get a number of suggestions as to
> what to what to buy/install, etc.  But along with this is a warning to not
> have more than one anti virus program on the machine at the same time.
> Question - Is there a way to test this, i.e. perhaps a harmless artificial
> virus that I can load to see if there is an anti-virus program already
> installed.
> I should mention that the Dell was inherited from an disabled, but now
> deceased niece (to whom I'd introduced computers a few years back). I set up
> an old machine for her, and she was so enthralled that she later bought this
> Dell.  I have no idea what's installed.
> Lewis Emerson
>
>
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