Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and (NOW) URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. It thus enables the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by multiple antivirus engines and web analysis toolbars.
Earlier it only scanned suspicious files, by uploading them to their server and checking them with definitions of several antivirus software.
The new VirusTotal URL scanner uses several services like those of Firefox, Google SafeBrowsing, Opera-AVG, Phishtank, Internet Explorer‘s Smartscreen filter and TRUSTe.
VirusTotal has also now made an extension for Firefox available, called VTzilla.
VTzilla is a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin that simplifies the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. It allows you to download files directly with VirusTotal’s web application prior to storing them in your PC. Moreover, it will not only scan files, but also URLs.
The scanning options are embedded in Firefox’s context menu and download dialog, making the analysis process as easy as clicking a single button.
You can get it here, under Browser Addons.
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