Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Faster and Easily Upload Suspicious Files for Analyzing

I download a lot files from various Location , but i should i only relay on my antivirus. I have been AVG antivirus fan from last 3 years. I know that Avg Antivirus have good rate of detecting know and unknown antivirus,but there are good coders who can by pass any Antivirus  and that makes me think twice should I run the Program.



Its is sad to say most of the newbie users only depend on one antivirus. Most of the newbie think that installing the antivirus only can make them safe on the computing environment. Today i am talking about How to determine the File is suspicious or not. I generally go with two scanning service Virus total and ThreatExpert Submission  even I have installed Antivirus on my PC. If Virus total and ThreatExpert Submission says clean to any file , i can be 95% sure that its is clean even other says it is Malicious .

Both the Services have online and Offline service for Looking at the suspicious files.

VirusTotal

If u want to check the services via Virus total then u should have VirusTotal Uploader which is 32MB . After installing the file , Right click on any file and the VirusTotal Uploader will Upload and check the file for suspicious  to more than 40 antivirus.

If u are FireFox fan then there is VTzilla which  process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. VTzilla  will not only scan files, but also URLs.





More details information on VirusTotal can be Found Over here.


ThreatExpert


Like  VirusTotal Threatexpert have offline tools beside online version . The ThreatExpert Submission Applet is a stand-alone tool that provides you with an quick easy way to submit your samples to ThreatExpert.

ThreatExpert Submission Applet saves me the trouble of launching my browser, wait for ThreatExpert’s website to load, go to the Submit Sample page and then upload. Now I can just run the applet from my desktop, browse for the suspicious file and upload. It is recommended that you sign up for a free account with ThreatExpert before you submit any files with the submission applet so you can easily access your own reports online.

This submission tool is only 931 KB in size and doesn’t require installation. The details on ThreatExpert Submission Applet can be Found over here.

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