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Mister2u
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Lord Possum
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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Online Virus Scan |
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In article <98qp939ve05kji7vtc7jvqor6mtr0610rl@4ax.com>, b__nice@hotmail.com says...
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| Online scanners, for obvious reasons, cannot be trusted since they rely on a system already up and running. If you're infected already such a scan means nothing. |
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.... and who can be certain that any given 'online scanning service' is not itself a trojan poking around in your data?
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badgolferman
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Online Virus Scan |
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Mister2u, 7/17/2007,11:40:24 AM, wrote:
Eset, makers of NOD32 are one of the premier anti-virus companies. They and Kaspersky consistently rank among the top five in virus detection. Now whether an online scan is worth anything is debatable. I suppose if one uses popularly bundled scanners then they would be better off doing weekly scans with online ones. |
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badgolferman
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: Online Virus Scan |
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hummingbird, 7/17/2007,7:00:05 PM, wrote:
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:48:46 -0400 'badgolferman' posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
> Eset, makers of NOD32 are one of the premier anti-virus companies. > They and Kaspersky consistently rank among the top five in virus > detection. Now whether an online scan is worth anything is > debatable. I suppose if one uses popularly bundled scanners then > they would be better off doing weekly scans with online ones.
Have you used this online filescanner: http://virusscan.jotti.org/ ..if so how would you rate it? |
That is just a single file scanner. You submit the file and it uses various scanning engines to check it. There is another one similar to that - http://www.virustotal.com/ . They are certainly good services to help with any suspicions you have regarding a single file. |
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