Having a good anti-virus these days is essential. Sometimes however it's good to have a second opinion. Well what if you had 42 of them?
VirusTotal is a nice site to have around for times when you seriously want to scan a file and make sure that it's clean. When uploading, it calculates a hash of the file and lets you know if it has been scanned in the past to give you the result right away and avoid waiting for the scans to take place, although you can ask it to re-analyze it since newer definitions to the scanning engines have since come out, detecting newer viruses and removing some false positives.
Another nice feature is a shell extension that you can install on your computer to upload and scan files with a simple right-click. This is optional however, and is available for your convenience.
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