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[Noob Question] Why do people not use virus total anymore?

title says all really. i've seen people saying not to use virustotal to check files. how comes? what is best to use?
Thanks :)
(May 27, 2018 03:55 PM)ZepTiC Wrote:  title says all really. i've seen people saying not to use virustotal to check files. how comes? what is best to use?
Thanks :)

Virustotal is great at what it does and that's why people don't want to use it for some stuff here. They distribute submissions to antiviruses so if you're uploading a stub from a crypter or anything that is supposed to be hard to detect, it will start getting detected.

If you are just looking to see if a file is clean or not virustotal is a good tool
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(May 27, 2018 04:01 PM)UpTheCrust Wrote:  Virustotal is great at what it does and that's why people don't want to use it for some stuff here. They distribute submissions to antiviruses so if you're uploading a stub from a crypter or anything that is supposed to be hard to detect, it will start getting detected.

If you are just looking to see if a file is clean or not virustotal is a good tool

1st Thanks for the quick reply. OOOh i see now. yeah just general usage for me! also 10/10 avi!
(May 27, 2018 04:01 PM)UpTheCrust Wrote:  Virustotal is great at what it does and that's why people don't want to use it for some stuff here. They distribute submissions to antiviruses so if you're uploading a stub from a crypter or anything that is supposed to be hard to detect, it will start getting detected.

If you are just looking to see if a file is clean or not virustotal is a good tool

This guy knows it.
Once submitted to virustotal youll find stubs get detected very quickly. Good post imaloser!
Virustotal is great but it spreads the file across other scanners. That's why crypters tell you not to upload to VirusTotal.
VirusTotal is a great service and I do not see why anyone would dislike it. I use it all the time and many posts use it. If you need a alternative to VirusTotal I would recommend Metascan Online, VirSCAN, Jotti, and NoVirusThanks.


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All online scanners that did not distribute are unavailable (scan4u, viruscheckmate, nodistribute, majyx) while we cannot use virustotal for obvious reasons.
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