Suppose that you have downloaded a file but you suspect that it may be infected with a virus, but you don’t want to install an antivirus that could possibly bog down your system, as in most cases. What do you do? You use a Online Virus Scanner. There are many free services that allow you to scan your files online for viruses. The most popular of them are:
1. Virus Total
It is the best online virus scanner. You just need to upload your file and it will do the rest. It scans the file using 37 popular antivirus engines to minimize detection errors.
2. Jotti’s Virus Scanner
This is another nice service which allows you to scan your files for viruses online. It scans your uploaded files with 20 antivirus engines. Fast and sweet.
3. Virus Chief
This service scans your files with 10 antivirus engines. Not as effective as the above two but still worth a mention.
4. Kapersky File Scanner
http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus
This service scans your files using the Kapersky Scanner. Faster than all of the above, but a relatively lower detection rate as only one antivirus engine is used to scan the files. It also has a 1 MB file size limit.
5. avast! Online Scanner
This service scans your file using the avast! scanner. Again very fast, but not very effective with a lower detection rate. This one has a 512 KB file size limit.
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