Online Virus Scan

No Virus Thanks is another web service that provides options to scan files with multiple anti-virus detection engines. It pretty much works like other web services of its kind like Virus Total by providing an upload form on the website which can be used by the user to upload a file to the service. The file will be analyzed on the web server using multiple anti-virus engines and a report generated in the end that displays information about the scan.

The file upload limit of No Virus Thanks is 20 Megabytes which means that it is not possible to upload files larger than that. The site has a rather low queue of 30 items and displays the current queue number in the upload form. It usually does not take long to process an upload though. The status is shown after uploading the file to the online virus scanner.

The report contains a detailed analysis of the uploaded file including results of each antivirus engine that has been used to scan the file. One interesting option of the online virus scanner is the option to paste a MD5 hash into a form on the website. This can reduce the time before a result will be displayed if the file has already been uploaded and analyzed by another user of the service.

You can also check the article about online virus scanners that lists several websites that will scan the computer with one antivirus engine usually provided by the software developer of antivirus software.

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Tags: antivirus, no virus thanks, online antivirus, online virus scan, online virus scanner, Security, virus total, virus-scanner
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3 Responses to “Online Virus Scan”

1. venkat says:

   November 2, 2008 at 6:04 am

   Yes these online scanners are useful to found viruses and infections and they can not delete the viruses, that’s the downside of them.

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2. mohamed says:

   November 17, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   very good

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