There are hundreds of antivirus programs available in the market for your computer security.These antivirus programs have their own built-in ‘database’ of viruses, which is called Virus Definitions through which an antivirus program is able to identify a virus. All of these antivirus programs have their own virus definition. It is obvious that Virus Definitions of two or more antivirus programs would be not the same. Thus, if an antivirus reports a file as virus, then it is not necessary that other antivirus programs will also detect same file as Virus.
So we came to a a conclusion that it is very difficult for an user to scan a file with hundred of antivirus programs simultaneously. Therefore to provide a proper solution, In this computer security tutorial, we will introduce a method through which you can scan your files with Top 40 Antivirus programs, and don’t worry you can scan files online so no need to install 40 Antivirus software in your Computer.
To scan a file with more than 40 antivirus programs online, follow the given steps :
Step 1: Open your favourite Internet Web Browser, and visit www.virustotal.com – Free service providing online virus scan
Step 2: Upload the Files which you want to scan with 40+ antivirus programs
Step 3: When Process of uploading is finished , all the Files will be scanned for the viruses and your can view Full report of the Virus Scan
That’s it, in the report you can see which antivirus programs detected the file uploaded by you as a virus, if any antivirus did detected it as virus then it might not be a good idea to store the same file on computer.
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