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Free Sites Double-check Your Antivirus Program

Posted by Steve Bass | Friday, January 19, 2007 4:50 PM PT

I'm satisfied with Grisoft's AVG, the antivirus program I use.

But ever so often, I'll do a spot check, especially if I spot a file that looks suspicious. (What's the phrase? Trust, but verify?)

I found two sites that will take your file and scan it very (and I mean very) thoroughly.

Virustotal runs the file by 29 antivirus programs, all in about two minutes. Jotti's Malware Scan is a little faster, but only has 15 programs available for scanning.

Either way, give them both a shot and let me know what you think.

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Virustotal examines your file with 29 antivirus programs

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