{"id":2695,"date":"2014-11-07T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:52","slug":"scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this is the first time you hear about VirusTotal.com<\/strong>, add it to your bookmarks right away. VirusTotal is an online service where you can upload a file and more than 50 anti-virus programs will\u00a0scan the file to detect various types of malware. This can be quite useful if you have downloaded something and you are not confident\u00a0the file is safe.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick demonstration on how to upload and scan a file at VirusTotal.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open your browser and go to www.virustotal.com<\/a>. It will look something like this:
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  2. Click on the Choose File<\/strong> button and browse to the file that you want to scan. When you’ve found the file, click Open\u0018<\/strong>.
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  3. Then click the Scan it!<\/strong> button to start the scan.\"virustotal-scan-it-button\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. After a few minutes the scan is usually complete. The file I chose to scan, tv.exe, is detected as malware by 8 of the 53 anti-virus scanners as you can see in the screenshot below. The scan result also shows the detection names. Some of the anti-virus programs calls the tv.exe file “Cyberservice” and “DownloadGuide”.\n

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    The scan report. Click for full size.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Another cool thing with VirusTotal is that they have a free API<\/a>\u00a0which allows web sites, such as this one, to upload samples and have the anti-virus programs scan the file. Thanks to this excellent API I can show scan results for files in FreeFixer’s library. Here’s an example of a scan result from freefixer.com for an adware file called PennyBeeW.exe<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \"PennyBeeW.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

    Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If this is the first time you hear about VirusTotal.com, add it to your bookmarks right away. VirusTotal is an online service where you can upload a file and more than 50 anti-virus programs will\u00a0scan the file to detect various types of malware. This can be quite useful if you have downloaded something and you … Continue reading How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}