Suspicious File - Let 35 Scanners Look At It
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If you have a suspicious file on your system that your current virus protection or spyware program is ignoring, upload the file to VirusTotal. Virus Total uses 35 anti-virus/spyware program’s to take a look at the file and report what it finds. Some of the top programs from the major software vendors are included. The best part is that the scan is free.
There is one statement on the VirusTotal website that says it all:
Currently, there is not any solution that offers a 100% effectiveness rate for detecting viruses and malware. You may become a victim of misleading advertising, if you buy such a product under those premises.
Your best protection is to use a combination of different software programs and do not rely totally on one product. If computer users would practice this safety procedure, their systems would remain relatively bug free.
Comments welcome.
7 Comments
Gerry Vrbensky
September 16th, 2008
at 8:38am
If the suspicious file on your system has a virus and your own av program hadn’t stop or alerted you at the time, I would think it’s too late to have it send and varified by anyone.
Ron Schenone
September 16th, 2008
at 10:56am
Hi Gerry,
Good point.
Armando Barreiro
September 17th, 2008
at 12:09am
You can have virus or a trojan contained within a file and it will never compromise the system as long as you don’t open it.
So yes, you can download it from a repository and then upload it to have it scanned and verify that it is safe to open.
Armando
Ron Schenone
September 17th, 2008
at 6:49am
Armando,
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Ron
Blake
September 18th, 2008
at 5:34pm
Or… you could run use Linux and not have to worry that every file you get has a virus in it!
Joe
October 14th, 2008
at 11:23pm
The best key to tackle ones problems
I am a newspaper editor and who knows the value of time better than me. The dead lines just tumble around me and in this condition one just cant imagine speed of your computer getting drastically reduced and your data getting hacked due to spywares and adwares . The only thing you can trust in this situation is search-and-destroy. It’s really a best key to tackle my problems.
Ron Schenone
October 15th, 2008
at 4:54am
Hi Joe,
Thanks for you comments.
Ron