Is submitting the link to VR after making it sharable just as effective as downloading and then uploading to VR?
depends what you mean by effective? … if the file is scanned, it is scanned
Than it’s just as effective as downloading and uploading. So I’ll just submit the URL once it’s sharable.
tried it, didn’t work.
First I scanned a Ccleaner installer and it was flagged by ESET-online.
(https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b5de4b21e2abc79b4d7cfefc16c0b092f84d37e08c9fb5cd03aa616bcbeee87e/analysis/1430789605/)
And then I uploaded it to Google Drive as a test, and scanned the URL (after allowing anyone with the link to access), and it came up squeaky clean.
Apparently it VR scans the cloud website and not the individual file, as I’ve indicated above.
So is there another way to scan files online without downloading them?
That is MetaScan and you can have it as an extension inside your browser,
you can even pre-scan downloading inside sandboxie, but later you cancel restore file.
polonus
Can a infected (document, media, etc.) file infect other similar or non similar files in the same folder or even computer just by being there?
An example that this is throughout possible: http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/word-and-excel-files-infected-using-windows-powershell/
The downloaded PowerShell script also contains the necessary code to infect other Word and Excel documents with the malicious CRIGENT code. To do this, it uses PowerShell scripts to modify registry entries, which lowers the security settings of Microsoft Office.Mind you always have to run that code for it to infect other docs … simply storing it in the same folder as a clean will not infect. Additional info. thanks Pondus.
polonus
But that affects general settings, or also infects specific files as well?