Reply to M. Mel\'endez and W. G. Hoover [arXiv:1206.0188v2]

In response to the recent critical comment by M. Mel'endez and W. G. Hoover [arXiv:1206.0188v2] on our work [M. Campisi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 250601 (2012)], we show that their molecular dynamics simulations do not disprove our theory but in fact convincingly corroborate it.