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How Antivirus Companies Are Hacking the Truth -- and Making Us All More Vulnerable
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<blockquote data-quote="shmu26" data-source="post: 770400" data-attributes="member: 37647"><p>You can check installer files with Windows Smartscreen, it's pretty good. Windows will do that by default for .exe installer files downloaded from the Internet. But if they came in a zip file, then you need the forced Smartscreen feature of Hard_Configurator, which adds an option for that to your right-click context menu.</p><p></p><p>VirusTotal can be misleading, if the file is relatively new. You need to check the details and see when the file was first uploaded. If it is new, and there are no detections, maybe it is a zeroday!! It can take up to a week until you start to get an accurate reading from VirusTotal, so don't rely just on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shmu26, post: 770400, member: 37647"] You can check installer files with Windows Smartscreen, it's pretty good. Windows will do that by default for .exe installer files downloaded from the Internet. But if they came in a zip file, then you need the forced Smartscreen feature of Hard_Configurator, which adds an option for that to your right-click context menu. VirusTotal can be misleading, if the file is relatively new. You need to check the details and see when the file was first uploaded. If it is new, and there are no detections, maybe it is a zeroday!! It can take up to a week until you start to get an accurate reading from VirusTotal, so don't rely just on that. [/QUOTE]
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