Tag: SCAN

It never hurts to have a wingman when you're trying to avoid malware on the Web, and VirusTotal has been a trusted companion for quite some time. Its Web-based scanner offers an easy way to check a file for infection prior to downloading, and it's just gotten a lot easier to access in Google Chrome. A new extension called VTChromizer adds two-click analysis via VirusTotal to your Chrome ...

You may not be familiar with Immunet, the Canadian startup who burst onto the scene last year with a light weight, community-driven Windows antivirus app. Immunet's user base is rapidly approaching 300,000 -- pretty phenomenal growth considering this screenshot from August of last year when I was one member out of 64. Immunet v1 has been a success, and the company is already hard at work on ...

Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Symantec by any stretch. In fact, I rather like Norton Antivirus 2010 -- it's their second really solid effort in a row after a string of releases I was less than enthusiastic about. What I don't like, however, is their free Security Scan. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/security/Why_does_Security_Scan_behave_like_the_malware_I_remove'; Why? Because it behaves ...

We first covered Twerp Scan back in April of last year. At the time we commended it as a useful way to scan your list of followers for accounts that are simply following you as a way to get onto your list and hopefully be noticed - in other words, Twitter spam followers. Since then, Twerp Scan has gone through a rather dramatic redesign, and has added the ability not only to scan the accounts that ...

If you're not sure whether or not it's safe to download that email attachment your nice new friend from Nigeria sent you, odds are you shouldn't. But if you want a second, third, and 14th opinion you might want to forward your email to VirusTotal. All you have to do is hit the forward button, and send your message to scan@virustotal.com. Change the subject line to SCAN and delete anything in the ...

Photoshop has a charming "feature" that prevents you from importing images of money. It's an anti-counterfeiting measure of dubious value, and if you're a designer who wants to make fair use of images of money in a piece, the restriction is a huge pain. Fortunately, there's a way around it, as described by Deke McClelland in this video at O'Reilly's Digital Media blog. It's a really easy ...