Monday, May 19, 2014

VirusTotal - Best Free Online Virus Scanner!!!

Virus is the most concerning problem of the world of information technology. This is the most dangerous threat for the computer and internet. As the uses of computer and internet is increasing day by day the threat of virus is also increasing.

It is impossible to escape from virus, malware or spam. But it does not mean If you have headache then cut off your head. We can keep something minimum which has no ending. In todays post I am gonna discuss about a site named VirusTotal a Online Virus Scanner.


About VirusTotal:
Virus Scanner, normally with name we understood Antivirus. Beside the antivirus software there are many Online Virus Scanner also available. VirusTotal is one of them, and I think it is the best of all. Because VirusTotal is a subsidiary of search engine giant Google. The mission of VirusTotal is to make the Internet a safer place.

Online Virus Scanner

VirusTotal simply works as an aggregator of information. The result shown by Virustotal is the output of different website scanner, antivirus engine , file and URL analysis tools. In this online scanning process there are many world top rated antivirus engines are used like AVG, Dr. Web, Kaspersky, Eset, G-data and lots more. That is why VirusTotal is the most reliable online virus scanner.

The most important thing is that VirusTotal is totally a non commercial site. Ti does not show any kinds of ads and as a result users gets biased free service. This site has high Alexa and Pagerank and that shows popularity and uses of the VirusTotal site.

How To Use VirusTotal:
VirusTotal has the simplest user interface and a person with minimum browsing know can easily use this free online virus scanning service.Click the below Link








After clicking the above link you will land on following interface.

Homepage of VirusTotal

 Here in the Interface You will find 3 Options:
  1. File: The first option is File and it is default option. Here click Choose File button and choose the file from your PC that you want to scan online and finally click Scan it! button to get the scanning result.
  2. URL: The next one is URL option and this is the most useful one. Select URL and type or paste a URL in the box and click Scan it! button. VirusTotal will scan and show the result.
  3. Search: The last scanning option is Search. If you want to search any domain, URL or IP address then select the Search option and enter any item that you want to scan and finally click Scan it! button.

Note: VirusTotal store the scanning result for every single users. After scanning a file if you try to scan the same file again then VirusTotal will not  scan the. Instead of scanning the file VirusTotal will show you the earlier scanning result. VirusTotal store the scanning result for sometimes.

Understanding The Scanning Result:

When you click Scan it! button then VirusTotal will start to scan and will take a few minutes to complete the scanning. It will take more times to scan depending on your item size. Normally a file will be scanned by approximately 50 antivirus engine and a URL will be scanned by 53 virus scanner. In the result it will show Detection Ratio and at the right side a virus indicator will be available.
  • For File: In the analysis section you will see the list of antivirus by which your files is scanned and in the additional information section you will get more information of the scanned file.
  • For URL: In the analysis section you will see the list of scanner by which the URL is scanned and in the additional information section you will get more information of the scanned URL.

You can also vote and comment by joining their community. To join VirusTotal community just click Join our Community button.


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