VirusTotal Should be Your PC's Friend!

[Malware Security]

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[nissimezra]

The results on virustotal not always right

thx for review

 

[Oxygen]

The results on virustotal not always right

thx for review

Got any proof of this ?

I'd like to see results from virustotal compared to the antivirus.

 

[illumination]

I use the Virus total Extension on my browser which gives me the right click context menu as well as VT uploader on my system to analyze any file or process.

I also have Hitman Pro with Virus Total API key.

Virus total is an excellent tool..

 

[Billmartin]

i was using my comodo sandbox and i went to scan a url and eset blocked it possibly a fake virus total i love your vids by the way

 

[nsm0220]

of course VT is your best friend after all it can users out by tell them if the files is good or bad or a fp

 

[nissimezra]

Got any proof of this ?

I'd like to see results from virustotal compared to the antivirus.

no
it happened to me not once that i had different result on a file and url. eset av show malicious but in virustotal eset show clean.

check it and see.

 

[Deleted member 178]

it is not my best friend , too many useless and poor engines, with many Fps from them; they should restrict the list too the most efficient ones.

 

[Koroke San]

I don't trust blindly anything & won't compromise my pc. In yt, i was watching a video of a avast employer in which he showed a friend of him sent him a url link via email & he checked it via virustotal & it shows as clean but when he click on that link avast detected & blocked the link. It was not a false positive by avast. i read a comment of a user & he posted that some malware sites have specific codes which detects if user using any malware scanning site ( ex: virustotal.com) to check it & will redirect it's url to safe one if not then malware scanner site will detect it.

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

Got any proof of this ?

I'd like to see results from virustotal compared to the antivirus.

VT only uses signatures, no behavior and heuristics (I think) so the results should be different.

 

[Mateotis]

@Koroke San I don't think there is much conspiracy in this. Basically, VT uses the same (or similar) method when you do a contextual scan with your AV to check uploaded files, so it only uses the signatures. Whereas when you actually run a file, every other module of your AV will step in to determine if that file is safe or not.

Edit: Got ninja'd by @Chromatinfish 123, haha. His reply is the same, just shorter.

 

[Koroke San]

@Koroke San I don't think there is much conspiracy in this. Basically, VT uses the same (or similar) method when you do a contextual scan with your AV to check uploaded files, so it only uses the signatures. Whereas when you actually run a file, every other module of your AV will step in to determine if that file is safe or not.

Edit: Got ninja'd by @Chromatinfish 123, haha. His reply is the same, just shorter.

I know that but anything can happen in this world hehehe

 

[Malware1]

VT only uses signatures, no behavior and heuristics (I think) so the results should be different.

No, heuristics is used too. Some scanners use different settings, for example Malwarebytes and Zillya disabled heuristics on VT, Emsisoft disabled PUP detection.

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

No, heuristics is used too. Some scanners use different settings, for example Malwarebytes and Zillya disabled heuristics on VT, Emsisoft disabled PUP detection.

Thanks for correction. I'm famously wrong when guess

 

[Aura]

it is not my best friend , too many useless and poor engines, with many Fps from them; they should restrict the list too the most efficient ones.

Kaspersky, ESET, Bitdefender, Comodo, Avast, Avira, Malwarebytes (cause why not ?), etc.
Oh, and blacklist Avast! File Reputation from the results before every files gets detected for nothing.

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

Kaspersky, ESET, Bitdefender, Comodo, Avast, Avira, Malwarebytes (cause why not ?), etc.
Oh, and blacklist Avast! File Reputation from the results before every files gets detected for nothing.

And also some crazy antivirus that very few people use (AhnLab)

 

[Malware1]

And also some crazy antivirus that very few people use (AhnLab)

AhnLab is great AV, I like it. Often detects samples missed by other AVs at VT (not FPs).

VirusTotal should remove eScan and Ad-Aware because they use Bitdefender engine. eScan's own engine is useless and Ad-Aware doesn't have one.

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

AhnLab is great AV, I like it. Often detects samples missed by other AVs at VT (not FPs).

VirusTotal should remove eScan and Ad-Aware because they use Bitdefender engine. eScan's own engine is useless and Ad-Aware doesn't have one.

Whoops, I meant to say ad-Aware

 

[Malware1]

Whoops, I meant to say ad-Aware

Don't lie

 

[RmG152]

And also some crazy antivirus that very few people use (AhnLab)

I "use" it. On some mmo "hackshield".