Total File Protection with Virus Total

 

VirusTotal.com is a website that provides free file checking. It uses up to 43 different antivirus products. Files can be sent either through the website or via email. The variety of products used by the website allows a user to check for viruses that the user's own antivirus solution may have missed, or to verify against false positives. The drawback to using VirusTotal is that it can only scan submitted files, and cannot perform system-wide scans on the user's computer. Another restriction users would face is that the size of the file uploaded or emailed to virustotal for scanning is up to 20 MB. VirusTotal is developed by Hispasec Sistemas.




VirusTotal is a service developed by Hispasec Sistemas that analyzes suspicious files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and web analysis toolbars.
VirusTotal's main characteristics are:

• Free, independent service.
• Runs multiple antivirus engines.
• Runs multiple file characterization tools.
• Real time automatic updates of virus signatures.
• Detailed results from each antivirus engine.
• Runs multiple web site inspection toolbars.
• Real time global statistics.
• Analysis automation API.
• Online malware research community.
• Desktop applications (VTUploader, VTzilla) for interacting with the service.
   

VirusTotal was selected by PC World as one of the best 100 products of 2007.












This online application will help users to scan websites and files for any viruses or malicious files.
Whenever users want to scan websites, Just go to
virustotal.com and scan for
viruses. and the best part is,
IT'S FREE!!






Virus Total helps students easily confirm if their files are clean and virus-free. Viruses gives stress for computer users likke students and it can affect your files. Losing files/Corrupted files may hinder students to become productive, and Virus Total will help keep your files safe from viruses and other file infections like Trojan, etc.

Virus Total serves as an online Virus Scanner. What's good is that most installed virus programs slow the compter down. Since Virus Totalis an online application, it cannot slow the computer for a long time like most anti-virus programs. It scans fast and is reliable.

Ratings: 7.2 / 10


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