From: Martin Jay on
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:58:57 GMT, Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>
wrote:

>VirusTotal Uploader enables you to directly send files from your system
>using the 'send to' context menu and scan it with 40 leading Anti-Virus
>products. You can quickly upload files that you have already downloaded, or
>you can submit the download URL of a file and pass it on to the service
>without storing the file on your computer. Size: 140KB Win All.
>
>http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html

I've been using the 'upload a file' version of Virustotal for a while.

A useful service for checking that those important Windows updates I
receive via email from Microsoft Nigeria don't contain anything nasty.
:)
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From: gl on
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:58:57 GMT, Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>
wrote:

>VirusTotal Uploader enables you to directly send files from your system
>using the 'send to' context menu and scan it with 40 leading Anti-Virus
>products. You can quickly upload files that you have already downloaded, or
>you can submit the download URL of a file and pass it on to the service
>without storing the file on your computer. Size: 140KB Win All.
>
>http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html

If you use Avira AV, then you don't have to worry about such services.
Nothing gets past Avira AV. It rocks.
From: Dex on
gl blow wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:58:57 GMT, Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>
> wrote:
>
>> VirusTotal Uploader enables you to directly send files from your system
>> using the 'send to' context menu and scan it with 40 leading Anti-Virus
>> products. You can quickly upload files that you have already downloaded, or
>> you can submit the download URL of a file and pass it on to the service
>> without storing the file on your computer. Size: 140KB Win All.
>>
>> http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html
>
> Nothing gets past Avira AV.

Cite please.
From: s|b on
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:13:14 -0500, gl blow wrote:

> Nothing gets past Avira AV.

Yeah, right...

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From: Thip on


"gl blow" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:58:57 GMT, Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com>

> If you use Avira AV, then you don't have to worry about such services.
> Nothing gets past Avira AV. It rocks.

It's good (I use it too) but I wouldn't go quite that far. I'll never trust
any AV 100%.