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What Are Your Prefered Second Opinion Malware Scanner/Scanners?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 908773" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>The second opinion scanner is often used to check the files <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">before</span></strong> executing/opening them. Of course, it is always better to do such a scan before executing something, but one should not think that this can reduce much the risk of infection (especially when one has a good AV with behavior-based detections in the cloud). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite111" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 908773, member: 32260"] The second opinion scanner is often used to check the files [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]before[/COLOR][/B] executing/opening them. Of course, it is always better to do such a scan before executing something, but one should not think that this can reduce much the risk of infection (especially when one has a good AV with behavior-based detections in the cloud). :( [/QUOTE]
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