VirusTotal
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Type of site
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Internet security, file and URL analyzer |
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| Available in |
28 Languages
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| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Created by | Hispasec Sistemas |
| Key people | Bernardo Quintero, Emiliano Martínez, Víctor Manuel Álvarezv, Karl Hiramoto, Julio Canto, Alejandro Bermúdez |
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| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 4,176 As of 2 June 2016[ref]
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| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | June 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
VirusTotal is a website created by the Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas. Launched in June 2004, it was acquired by Google Inc. in September 2012.
VirusTotal aggregates many antivirus products and online scan engines to check for viruses that the user's own antivirus may have missed, or to verify against any false positives. Files up to 128 MB can be uploaded to the website or sent via email. Anti-virus software vendors can receive copies of files that were flagged by other scans but passed by their own engine, to help improve their software and, by extension, VirusTotal's own capability. Users can also scan suspect URLs and search through the VirusTotal dataset. VirusTotal for dynamic analysis of malware use Cuckoo sandbox. VirusTotal was selected by PC World as one of the best 100 products of 2007.
VTUploader is an application that integrates into the Explorer's (right-click) contextual menu, listed under Send To > Virus Total. The application also launches manually for submitting a URL or a program that is currently running in the OS.
VirusTotal stores the name and various hashes for each scanned file. Already scanned files can be identified by their known (e.g., VT default) SHA256 hash without uploading complete files. The SHA256 query URL has the form https://www.virustotal.com/latest-scan/SHA256. File uploads are normally limited to 128 MB.
There are several browser extensions available, such as VTzilla for Mozilla Firefox, VTchromizer for Google Chrome and VTexplorer for Internet Explorer. They allow the user to download files directly with VirusTotal's web application prior to storing them in the computer, as well as scanning URLs.
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