Comments on: Overview of Online Virus Scanners

By: My Finds : Good Reads For The Week | TECH YARD

My Finds : Good Reads For The Week | TECH YARD — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:29:14 +0000

[...] Martin Of GHacks has made a list of Online Virus Scanners that can be useful for scanning your system or files online. URL : Overview of Online Virus Scanners [...]

By: DoneThat2

DoneThat2 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:44:18 +0000

I don’t believe Shields Up! is a virus scanner. I thinks it’s a site that tests a PC’s anonymity on the net.

By: USBman

USBman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:32:51 +0000

I’ve got some more options to add to the list of individual file scanners:

Multi-engine scanner – Jotti: http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Single-engine scanner – Dr. Web: http://online.us.drweb.com/

I personally use one (or more) of the following, as they are *multi* engine scanners: VirusTotal, VirScan, or Jotti.

Enjoy.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:07:22 +0000

martin, what would you say is a good anti-virus for Vista ?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:22:00 +0000

virustotal is rather good, email option mentioned in list but it also has small utility for submitting file from context menu. It recently got search by hash, this allows to look up results for file without having to submit it at all.

List of engines it is using is close to overkill. Good for paranoia but few of them seem to consider suspicious pretty much anything executable – that scares people.