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Is https://www.virustotal.com https://www.virustotal.com good? I saw it referenced but never used

• deleted 5y ago
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• TonyTrapp 5y ago
  It gives you a good glance how likely it is that something is a threat - if an overwhelming majority of AV products detect it, it's quite likely that it's bad, and if only a few products find it, it's either very new or really just a bunch of false positives. Like many things, there's no simple "yes" or "no" answer, thus interpreting Virustotal output still requires some literacy on that topic. The site can also help software vendors to find which AV products reject their software, so that they can file false-positive requests to those AV vendors.
• david_allison 5y ago
  Yes. There's signal if there's detections There's signal if something is old and there's no detections There's no signal if something is recent with no detections
• jart 5y ago
  It's very good.