Scan Suspicious Files with Different Antivirus Engines

Suspicious files are all over the internet, you download something and you come across another virus or malware which is totally unknown to your Antivirus Engine, so that does not make any sense that you are having the best Antivirus Engine in the world but sometimes that too fails to detect that kind of virus. So what we can do in that case well we go for something which can search your file using all Antivirus Engine available.

That’s right searching and scanning for malware and viruses through all Antivirus Engines together can be done really easily with VirusTotal. So what VirusTotal says on about them.

“ Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, Trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines.

Now their’s a small problem with this service that they have a file size limited to 32MB per file, however this is good because it makes their website free for everyone as they do not have much load on their server.

So now click on "Choose File" and then click on "Scan it!" and you will see another windowlight boxed in front of you saying your file being uploaded:

So now your file is being upload and they will scan your file with their all Antivirus Engines and brief your results in few seconds like below:

Then you will see another windowlight boxed in front of you saying your file already analysed. So from the below image you can see that the file was detected by 28 out of 43 scanners as a Virus, so now if you want to see which Antivirus is detecting it and in which category than click on View Last Analysis.

And now you can see detailed analysis like below:

So that’s it now scan any files you think they can be suspicious.