Virustotal Reviews

Useful website

Useful website Thanks for it Checks the URLs and files

Great job guys

They dont want anything from you and work like a charm 10 10

Beware A Wolf in Sheep s Clothing

At first glance VirusTotal may appear to be a shining example of a great service However there is an unsettling truth lurking beneath the surface This company while presenting an appealing facade seems to be a devil in disguise According to their about page this is is what they say Our goal is to make the internet a safer place through collaboration between members of the antivirus industry researchers and end users of all kinds Unfortunately my experience has revealed a different story While the service is useful for doing a quick check if a file is malicious there is a huge problem with false positives and the way they are handled When you read their contributors page VirusTotal claims to be an information aggregator and that they do not responsible for any false positives since they are generated by other antivirus companies They say that false positives should be addressed directly with the developers of that product It is easier said than done A lot of those companies do not provide a way to submit false positives or they choose to overlook and neglect any communication related to these issues VirusTotal does not seem to care about the companies they collaborate with Contacting VirusTotal about it is like talking to a wall they simply ignore you unless you are willing to pay them a ton of money for their questionable services The larger number of antivirus companies the safer you are Even though a lot of them are not interested in improving their product I doubt it If you are still not convinced that VirusTotal is careless let us take a look at their contributors page which lists the antivirus products used and the links to the websites of the companies that own them One of the products listed there is called Google The provided link to reach this company is google com Yes it just points to Google search engine Go ahead and try to figure out who you should contact when the antivirus doesn t even have a searchable name because it is just called Google The craziest part about this is that VirusTotal was acquired by Google in September 2012 If there is anyone who should know how to contact the developers of this mysterious Google antivirus it is VirusTotal The claim that one of the goals of VirusTotal is to collaborate with the end users is completely ridiculous In fact their practices raise concerns about their true intentions and ethical standards False positives are harmful to the reputation of open source products and companies with small development teams A lot of users get scared after seeing only 1-2 false positives thinking that the file is malicious and refuse to install the application Preventing this is almost impossible due to the disinterest of VirusTotal and the contributing antivirus companies VirusTotal should have a better way to handle this by starting to communicate with the end users vetting the companies they collaborate with providing the means to report false positives and receive a transparent response within a reasonable timeframe At no point you should have to go through the list of 70 companies and try to figure out how to submit a file in which format to submit it how long to wait and whether the company is ever going to respond Until then proceeding with caution would be wise when dealing with VirusTotal as using this service means that you are giving power to a company to harm other products without repercussions while presenting themselves as benevolent

Fake virus scan

I create a simple game without external apps or viruses and virus total said that it has a spy-keyloger

Another problem for software developers

Huge problems 1 Scanning behaviour for many engines is different compared to the desktop of the standard user 2 It Includes ridiculous AVs that shouldn t be considered at all because they marks almost anything as bad just because their goal is to appear otherwise such ridiculous AVs would never be noticed by anyone 3 This way it happens that VirusTotal if used by a normal users and not by a developer or IT people is a problem because 3 bad results from unknown AV are enough to scared the standard user So this is a damage against zillions of developers and software houses VirusTotal keeps having in list these ridiculous AVs just to sport a big number and for this reason for me 1 star it s even too much should be a negative number since it s a damage to developers

Does more harm than viruses

1 Support is ignoring requests A complete lack of desire to understand the problem and bear responsibility 2 It Includes ridiculous AVs that shouldn t be considered at all because they marks almost anything as bad just because their goal is to appear otherwise such ridiculous AVs would never be noticed by anyone 3 This way it happens that VirusTotal if used by a normal users and not by a developer or IT people is a problem because 3 bad results from unknown AV are enough to scared the standard user So this is a damage against zillions of developers and software houses VirusTotal keeps having in list these ridiculous AVs just to sport a big number and for this reason for me 1 star it s even too much should be a negative number since it s a damage to developers

Fake Review

Hi The virustotal is obviously fake This because I created a payload of a simple coinminer and I encrypted the payload with AES-256 bits encryptation and he says that is virus Obviously is virus but he can t see the code to say that it s virus How is possible to say that is virus if the payload is encrypted Good troll on internet btw

not 100 true

i use this on the daily before downloading things but just recently i ran a download link thru it and it said it was safe so i downloaded it and ended up being a virus smh