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How to judge a file is safe or not in Virustotal?
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<blockquote data-quote="TairikuOkami" data-source="post: 1082855" data-attributes="member: 61892"><p>I do not know about you, but I judge the file by myself. Like, what it is? A mod or a script to modify something? Who published it? How long has it been around?</p><p>To me Virustotal is a second opinion, but biased. Let say that Virustotal would report that a file is 99% malware, but it was published by Andy, I would still run it.</p><p>Sure, repositories can be hijacked, so maybe I would not run it immediately, but I would not be too worried about it, especially after reading verified comments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TairikuOkami, post: 1082855, member: 61892"] I do not know about you, but I judge the file by myself. Like, what it is? A mod or a script to modify something? Who published it? How long has it been around? To me Virustotal is a second opinion, but biased. Let say that Virustotal would report that a file is 99% malware, but it was published by Andy, I would still run it. Sure, repositories can be hijacked, so maybe I would not run it immediately, but I would not be too worried about it, especially after reading verified comments. [/QUOTE]
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