Friday, December 28, 2012

How to check any file before download that it is safe or not??


Most of the time it happens that when you download any file from internet by mistake you download a malicious file or program even if you are perfect computer user. Due to these malicious files or programs your computer may infected by viruses and stop working perfectly and requires maintenance of computer. So, here in this blog i describe you how to check any file that it secure or not before downloading.

When you are download any file from internet you should check that file that it is safe or not before downloading. So, here question is arise how to check any file before download?..Don't worry friends i will explain you, to check any file you need VirusTotal service. This is an online service that scans the files, that you want to download on your computer for viruses. To do this you need to make a right click on the link of file and choose copy link address.

Now browse that link to VirusTotal.com then select the Submit a URL tab after that paste the link in the text field and finally click on Submit URL.

This VirusTotal fastly checks the link against several URL analysis tools. You file is safe to download if it appesrs claen. If you want to see the details then click the View downloaded file analysis link near the top and after some time you will see the details of file.

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