{"id":656428,"date":"2013-05-07T05:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=147906"},"modified":"2013-05-07T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:15:16","slug":"virustotal-uploader-lifts-files-to-cloud-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656428","title":{"rendered":"VirusTotal Uploader lifts files to cloud scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/shutterstock_56190373-e1317655050113-600x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cloud Computing\" width=\"600\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VirusTotal.com is a great resource, a powerful tool which can quickly check just about any file for malware with around 50 of the world\u2019s leading antivirus engines. But if you need to submit more than one or two files then its limited browser-based interface will quickly become a problem, and so you may want to try the new\u00a0<a title=\"PhrozenSoft VirusTotal Uploader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/30197-phrozensoft_virustotal_uploader\" >PhrozenSoft VirusTotal Uploader<\/a>, instead.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, the program makes it much easier to check the files you need. At its simplest, you can just select one or more files in Explorer, drag and drop then onto VirusTotal Uploader, and they\u2019ll be uploaded for you. A straightforward interface keeps you informed on the upload process, and results are displayed as they arrive.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just the start, though. If you\u2019re manually hunting for malware then you might start by checking your running processes, so it\u2019s good to see that VirusTotal Uploader can do that, too. If you spot something which looks odd, select it, click the Submit button and it\u2019ll be added to your upload queue.<\/p>\n<p>The program provides additional tabs to view your startup programs, services, and any process with an open network connection. Again, you can run a scan on anything which looks out of place.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s even a \u201cDownload and Scan\u201d tool; give the program your URL and it\u2019ll download the file and get it checked out for you.<\/p>\n<p>PhrozenSoft VirusTotal Uploader does also have multiple issues. It needs to be installed when we\u2019d prefer a portable version, for instance. And by default it installs itself in your Appdata\\Roaming folder, rather than \\Program Files (not exactly a critical issue, but we still find it annoying).<\/p>\n<p>There are several interface irritations, too. The way its functions are organised over two windows feels a little cumbersome. Its program and process displays can\u2019t be sorted by name, path, process ID or anything else. And there\u2019s just a general shortage of extras. So you might hope that double-clicking or right-clicking a process would let you see its file properties, say, but actually there are no double-click actions or right-click menus at all.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is the program\u2019s first public release, so problems are to be expected. These are mostly quite minor, at least, and we\u2019ve no doubt that usability will improve quickly. The core functionality of\u00a0<a title=\"PhrozenSoft VirusTotal Uploader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/30197-phrozensoft_virustotal_uploader\" >PhrozenSoft VirusTotal Uploader<\/a>\u00a0is already very good, though, and if you\u2019re going manually malware-hunting then we\u2019d take the program along \u2013 it\u2019s sure to be a major asset.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-572953p1.html\" >Tom Wang<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" >Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=9e7dGVIRbfg:ZRK9RIEPBJo: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=9e7dGVIRbfg:ZRK9RIEPBJo: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\/9e7dGVIRbfg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirusTotal.com is a great resource, a powerful tool which can quickly check just about any file for malware with around 50 of the world\u2019s leading antivirus engines. But if you need to submit more than one or two files then its limited browser-based interface will quickly become a problem, and so you may want to [&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-656428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656428","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=656428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}