VirusTotal
by: Daniel Galang
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.
How can VirusTotal help students?
- VirusTotal can scan a file for viruses or malware contamination, this could help avoid passing of documents with virus that can destroy the hard drive of one's computer and delete all of its files. This is useful when passing documents to each other especially doing group works.
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Group Review:
We rate this application a 6 out of 10 since this would be useful in avoiding such dangerous viruses or malware during passing of documents when doing projects or group papers.
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