VirusTotal

VirusTotal is a free and reliable online antivirus service that can secondly detect viruses, worms, Trojans and many other types of file malware and URLs it provides. By using VirusTotal, you can be sure that your system or the website you want to use is safe. This is also a great tool for web developers, who can instantly test their newly created site and see if its configuration can somehow trigger a "false positive" state in one or more popular online threat scanners.

By using VirusTotal, you will improve the overall security of the Internet and help many others enjoy browsing the Internet. Their contributions and constant reports of various threats provide VirusTotal developers with invaluable data that results in the construction of increasingly secure antivirus tools and services.

VirusTotal Review, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs that allow the identification of viruses, worms, Trojans and other types of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it can be used as a means to detect false positives, that is, harmless resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners.

VirusTotal's mission is to help improve the antivirus and security industry and make the Internet a safer place by developing free tools and services.

The main features of VirusTotal are highlighted below:

Free impartial service

VirusTotal, is offered free to end users as long as its use does not have a commercial purpose and is not part of any commercial activity. Although the service works with engines that belong to different companies and organizations, VirusTotal does not distribute or advertise any product belonging to third parties, but simply acts as an aggregator of information. This prevents us from being subject to any type of bias and allows us to offer an objective service to our users.

Run multiple antivirus engines and website scanners.

VirusTotal simply acts as an information aggregator. The aggregated data is the output of different antivirus engines, website scanners, file and URL analysis tools and user contributions. The complete list of antivirus solutions and website scanners used in VirusTotal can be found in the credits and collaboration acknowledgments section.

Run multiple file and URL characterization tools

As stated earlier, VirusTotal also adds the output of a series of file and URL characterization tools. These tools cover a wide range of purposes, ranging from providing structural information about Microsoft Windows portable executables (PE) to identifying signed software. The complete list of file and URL characterization tools used in VirusTotal can be found in the credits and collaboration acknowledgments section.

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