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Author Topic: Nice online virus-testing site  (Read 4472 times)

mouser

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Nice online virus-testing site
« on: June 18, 2005, 02:16 PM »
http://www.virustotal.com/

a friend passed this to me and speaks highly of it.  it's a free service that will let you upload (or email) files to it which it then checks for viruses using multiple well-known virus scanning engines.  great for a second opinion if your antivirus reports something suspicious.

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Re: Nice online virus-testing site
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2005, 01:15 AM »
I was considering reinstalling Kaspersky Anti-Virus just for on-demand use, when I discovered that they now offer a web-based scanner:

http://www.kaspersky.../kws/kavwebscan.html

So screw installing KAV; I've been using this free scanner.  Why they use ActiveX and MSIE is beyond me--I mean, is there something wrong with simply having people download and run a little application?  Whatever, it's the best thing going.
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