Virustotal: All-in-one file scanner.

 

*Quickee

I’ve been using this online service, for about 5 years now – submitting various files from photos to large video files. Not sure of the detailed internals, of how it works but has yet to Fail-me plus it’s very popular among File-sharers.

From: VirusTotal

“VirusTotal is a service developed by Hispasec Sistemas that analyzes suspicious files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and web analysis toolbars.

VirusTotal’s main characteristics are:
Free, independent service.
Runs multiple antivirus engines.
Runs multiple file characterization tools.
Real time automatic updates of virus signatures.
Detailed results from each antivirus engine.
Runs multiple web site inspection toolbars.
Real time global statistics.
Analysis automation API.
Online malware research community.
Desktop applications (VTUploader, VTzilla) for interacting with the service.”

Head-over to: http://www.virustotal.com/stats.htmlcheck out the daily stats!

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