Ep 6 Virus Total Website

VirusTotal Website

Hello and Welcome back to "USB our Guest, Cyber Security Tips". Thank you for adding us to your flash briefing.

Today's tip is about the utilizing the website VirusTotal. A Link to their website is in the show notes

VirusTotal has a multi-purpose website dedicated to, Analyzing files and URLS to detect types of malware and share them with the security community.

If you come accross a suspicious file or website, you can upload or paste the URL to the VirusTotal website.

I often will use this if I'm given a website to check out from a friend or after I download a file that I find a little suspect.

VirusTotal cross references your upload with 70 antivirus scanners and URL/domain blacklisting services.

After VirusTotal is done analyzing, you will be taken to a results page. Anything listed in Red may indicate that the file or URL is malicious and should be deleted or avoided.

Use VirusTotal as a tool to keep you computer virus free.

Thank you again for listening and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.