VirSCAN - Free web based virus scanner
VirSCAN.org is a free online virus scanner using several antivirus engine. Currently, they support up to 39 antivirus engines which include NOD32, Kaspersky, Symantec, McaFee, and etc. Almost all famous antivirus engine are supported by them.
VirSCAN provide user to upload suspicious files and they will use the antivirus engine to scan them. From the website, i can see that their virus definitions are quite updated. But, when you use this service, please put this in your mind, “they can only help you to scan the suspicious file, and they are not responsible for the results. And if the results shown that the file uploaded is free from virus, it may due to the malware is new and all antivirus engine can’t detect it.”
VirSCAN support up to 10MB per file upload, which is quite enough because normally document size is less than it. They support RAR/zip for mat also, which means that you can zip your files and then upload to the server. But, the maximum number of files contain in single archive are 10 files.
At the bottom of the page, you can find last 50 files that had been scan by VirSCAN. You can click the file and view the details of the result. As seen by the example below, some of the antivirus engins’ result are not accurate.
Now, we click “1.vmp.exe” to go to the next page:
As you can see, the results of different antivirus are different.
As a conclusion, you can not use VirSCAN as your only antivirus. As they just can scan the file you upload and not provide real-time protection. So, my advise is, thread VirSCAN as extra antivirus protection. Install a reliable antirus system on your PC and submit any file that you suspect to VirSCAN. It is because no antivirus can detect all type of malware, virus, and worms.
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