Visit one of the following:
(Multiple sites are given in case one is not working)
- VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexf.html)
- Jotti's malware scan (http://www.virusscan.jotti.org/)
- VirSCAN.org (http://www.virscan.org/)
- At the upload site, click Browse.
- Locate the suspicious file and double click it to enter it into the window.
- Next click Send File/Submit/Upload (depending on the site)
- Your file will possibly be entered into a queue which normally takes less than a minute to clear.
- This will perform a scan across multiple different virus scanning engines.
- Wait for all of the scanning engines to complete.
- Use the results to determine if the file is malicious or not.
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If the file in question is of a malicious nature then it is advised to visit our Computer viruses and spyware (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html) forum and follow the Read this before requesting malware removal help (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) instructions.
VirusTotal Upload Tool and email service
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VirusTotal is a free online virus scanner with 32 antivirus engines.
Additionally VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html) has created a file uploader that makes the whole process easy.
The 80 Kilobyte application installs itself in the right click context menu as a Send To entry which means that you can right click a file on your computer and select Send To > VirusTotal which will send it to their website to scan the file.
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A browser window will open displaying the scan results when finished.
VirusTotal Uploader vtsetup.exe (http://www.virustotal.com/vtsetup.exe) (Windows 80KB)
If you receive a suspicious email or email attachment you can send the files or email attachments to VirusTotal by email.
Create a new message with
[email protected] (
[email protected]) as destination address of your email.
- Write SCAN in the Subject field.
- Attach the file to be scanned. Such file must not exceed 10 MB in size. If the attached file is larger, the system will reject it automatically.
- You will receive an email with a report of the file analysis.
- Response time will vary depending on the load of the system at the time of placing your request.
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If the file in question is of a malicious nature then it is advised to visit our Computer viruses and spyware (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html) forum and follow the Read this before requesting malware removal help (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) instructions.