Online File Scanners - upload and find out what's safe

review from ClifNotes, Dec 2005, permalink _ Security Tools

Tony from TopFreeware recently wrote to tell me about a free file scanning service. At VirusTotal's website, you can upload a file and they'll scan it several ways and give you report back.

I posted it to TeMerc's security forum and asked them about this. They said this one is good and suggested several others that are good also.

These sites are a great way to find out if something is safe before you install it. They aren't perfect, but they do help.

List of online malware file scanners

• VirusTotal - free online virus and malware scan

http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexf.html

• Jotti's malware scan

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

• Kaspsersky Online File Scanner

http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus.html

• Norman Sandbox Information Center (email required, not immediate)

http://sandbox.norman.no/live_4.html

• avast! Online File Scanner

http://onlinescan.avast.com/

• Dr.Web® Online Scanner

http://old.antivir.ru/english/www_av/

Thanks to Tony at http://topfreeware.net and Tom at http://temerc.com

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