Sunday, 9 September 2012
Got a link on mail ? worried whether it is a malicious one or a safe one?then here is your solution
We get many web URL's via mail or Facebook or some other sources from our friends or strangers,some times we fear being infected by malware on visiting those links,so we choose to not take risks and ignore them ,but what if those links are safe and contains the content we wanted?an anti-virus can't be used to scan URL's,so what to do?
VIRUS TOTAL serves your purpose.it is a trusted online URL scanner which easily detects most of the malware,phishing links,viruses, Trojans,worms what not!it even facilitates you to upload a file from your PC (max size 32 MB)
web address :- https://www.virustotal.com/
you can also get an ,chrome extension here
Mozilla add on here
after adding them to your browser,you can right click on any link and click scan with virus total.you can also scan your E-mail attachments before downloading them
We get many web URL's via mail or Facebook or some other sources from our friends or strangers,some times we fear being infected by malware on visiting those links,so we choose to not take risks and ignore them ,but what if those links are safe and contains the content we wanted?an anti-virus can't be used to scan URL's,so what to do?
web address :- https://www.virustotal.com/
you can also get an ,chrome extension here
Mozilla add on here
after adding them to your browser,you can right click on any link and click scan with virus total.you can also scan your E-mail attachments before downloading them
NEWS:
Recently Google buys virustotal
