{"id":647888,"date":"2013-03-20T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=138012"},"modified":"2013-03-20T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:45:37","slug":"metascan-client-scans-for-viruses-from-the-cloud-but-doesnt-remove-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647888","title":{"rendered":"Metascan Client scans for viruses from the cloud, but doesn&#8217;t remove them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/shutterstock_24183556-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Security\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34007\" \/>OPSWAT has announced the availability of\u00a0<a title=\"Metascan Client\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29884-metascan_client\" >Metascan Client<\/a>, a lightweight on-demand virus scanner.<\/p>\n<p>The program is extremely basic &#8212; there\u2019s no real-time protection or scheduled scanning, and it can\u2019t remove whatever it finds &#8212; but could still be useful as a backup to your regular antivirus tool.<\/p>\n<p>Metascan Scan is extremely convenient to use, for instance. It\u2019s portable, entirely free and couldn\u2019t really have a much simpler interface: you just launch it and click \u201cScan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The program then checks all your running processes and modules, calculating hash values for each. These are sent to the Metascan server, where they\u2019re passed to several antivirus engines. (It\u2019s not clear which ones will be used at any one time, but OPSWAT says the list includes ESET, AVG, Microsoft , Bitdefender, Symantec, F-Secure, GFI, Kaspersky, and McAfee).<\/p>\n<p>If the engines don\u2019t recognize a hash, the relevant file is uploaded to the server for a closer look. And once the process is over you\u2019ll be given the results.<\/p>\n<p>This is all a little basic, and there are a few obvious improvements which could be made. Our test reports gave us the all-clear, for instance, based on an \u201cEngine count\u201d of \u201c5\u2033, but we would have liked to know which engines had been used.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to scan more than just running processes would be useful, too. And there is a sign of that in the interface, which includes greyed out \u201cFull Scan\u201d and \u201cCustom Scan\u201d options, so perhaps we\u2019ll see more features later.<\/p>\n<p>Even now, though,\u00a0<a title=\"Metascan Client\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29884-metascan_client\" >Metascan Client<\/a>\u00a0could be very useful. If you think your PC has been infected by something, but your regular suite hasn\u2019t raised an alert, then it provides a quick and easy way to check your running processes against several antivirus engines. And that alone makes it worth including in your portable security toolkit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-54269p1.html\" >Andrea Danti<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" >Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=NBZ3AV0qUhA:1uwT105zFlY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=NBZ3AV0qUhA:1uwT105zFlY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/NBZ3AV0qUhA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPSWAT has announced the availability of\u00a0Metascan Client, a lightweight on-demand virus scanner. The program is extremely basic &#8212; there\u2019s no real-time protection or scheduled scanning, and it can\u2019t remove whatever it finds &#8212; but could still be useful as a backup to your regular antivirus tool. Metascan Scan is extremely convenient to use, for instance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}