05 Nov 2008 -
Virus Scan Without Anti Virus
Perhaps the title of this psoting far-fetched, is it possible to scan the virus without any anti-virus? That is not like that, anti-virus installed on your computer is a must, how to choose and what choices can be found here and here.
Very often undetectable by anti-virus is a virus, but detected by other anti-virus. So what's the solution? Installation of more than one anti-virus is one option, but it's hard to do because most anti-virus we want to uninstall the anti virus is installed, may not want to clash or frequency of anti-virus was detected as a virus too, weird huh?
Another alternative is to use VirusTotal is a service provider for the detection of viruses from viruses, worms, trojans and all kinds of malware. Best of scans performed with various antivirus engines.
Steps:
1. Go to VirusTotal website. (virustotal.com)
2. Shown:
3. Enter the name of the file will be uploaded to be scanned
4. Click the button Send File
5. Shown:
6. Result:
Perhaps the title of this psoting far-fetched, is it possible to scan the virus without any anti-virus? That is not like that, anti-virus installed on your computer is a must, how to choose and what choices can be found here and here.
Very often undetectable by anti-virus is a virus, but detected by other anti-virus. So what's the solution? Installation of more than one anti-virus is one option, but it's hard to do because most anti-virus we want to uninstall the anti virus is installed, may not want to clash or frequency of anti-virus was detected as a virus too, weird huh?
Another alternative is to use VirusTotal is a service provider for the detection of viruses from viruses, worms, trojans and all kinds of malware. Best of scans performed with various antivirus engines.
Steps:
1. Go to VirusTotal website. (virustotal.com)
2. Shown:
3. Enter the name of the file will be uploaded to be scanned
4. Click the button Send File
5. Shown:
6. Result:
