free service for scanning suspicious files
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:27 pm
Virustotal offers a free service for scanning suspicious files using several antivirus engines.
Use the upper textbox to select and send any suspicious file to Virustotal for a scan. If you wish, you can also send files using your email client. In that case, please follow these steps:
* Create a new message with scan@virustotal.com as destination address of your email.
* Write SCAN in the Subject field (write SCAN- if you do not want to distribute your sample to any AV company).
* Attach the file to be scanned. Such file must not exceed 10 MB in size. If the attached file is larger, the system will reject it automatically.
* You will receive an email with a report of the file analysis. Response time will vary depending on the load of the system at the time of placing your request.
FREE
Heres another one that takes a 15 MB file FREE
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:4024, old post ID:33046
Use the upper textbox to select and send any suspicious file to Virustotal for a scan. If you wish, you can also send files using your email client. In that case, please follow these steps:
* Create a new message with scan@virustotal.com as destination address of your email.
* Write SCAN in the Subject field (write SCAN- if you do not want to distribute your sample to any AV company).
* Attach the file to be scanned. Such file must not exceed 10 MB in size. If the attached file is larger, the system will reject it automatically.
* You will receive an email with a report of the file analysis. Response time will vary depending on the load of the system at the time of placing your request.
FREE
Heres another one that takes a 15 MB file FREE
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:4024, old post ID:33046