Stint with Antivirus herd

Stint with Antivirus herd

Some times a forwarded file from a friend or a crack for your winmobile software. You never know, if the downloaded file is a virus or a clean software. However clean it looks, there are lot of ways computer gets infected by virus/malwares. It's always advisable not to open unknown files directly in desktop.

One safe way is to scan the file with many AntiVirus softwares, as most of the time one AntiVirus may not able to find the black spot. Also it's not advisable to install all available AntiVirus wares because they stalemate the system altogether. I found a free, safe and viable solution to scan with all available AntiVirus wares called - VirusTotal.

VirusTotal provides a fantastic online service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses. Here's an interesting statistics of its usage on how many files were scanned and what's the common virus/malware affected user's system.

One of the safest & novel solution to open such suspicious files in desktop environment is using sandbox-based isolation program. I rely a lot on Sandboxie.

>> Try free virustotal to be in safe side