All of us always keep on searching for good anti-virus program , but viruses these days have become so much sphisticated that, some time even anti-virus misses them. We always perform re-scan to ensure that there is no virus in the file, but still some time we end up losing our memory space, or hard-disk crash.
I was looking for a solution to this, then i found this site VirusTotal.com, here they scan the file with 40 differenet anti-virus which makes passing of virus or missing the trace of virus almost impossible.
Lets see how it works, first step is to upload the file to this website, after uploading we see that our file is queued, this is the unwanted part, beacuse none of us wants to wait just to get one file scanned, this could be the reasoned with these guys have only one server so they cannot process all users request at same time, hope they would improve this feature in near future.
Second lets see how they perform scanning, after getting the turn of our scan we see that a list of antiviruses have been shown using which our file will be scanned , thts interesting because it includes all the name which we could think of like kaspersky,microsoft,etc..
But does this means that each and every time we have to visit virus uploader ,The answere is NO, as they have introduced Virus Total uploader using which we can directly send the file to the virus total, by simple right clicking the file and selecting the option send to option. Virus uploader is a free program which can taken from virtustotal.com.
So where does the virustoal.com score above other anti-virus beacuse of its inability to check all system files which is a common option in all anti-virus. Its feature of getting the file scanned from 40 anti-virus makes it a perfect antiv-virus for the online document, as maxmimum threat, or malware or virus comes from online attachments like songs,e-mail etc. Virustotal scores above all.
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