Both Jotti and Virustotal scan?

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Hi forum members,

Through this forum people often get the advice to get a second opinion at the multiscanner jotti. But there is also this link: htttp://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.htm. Is this an addition?

greets,

polonus

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Polonus, this link takes me to Temasek Polytechnic. ??? ???

I don’t want to go back to school!

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Virustotal is often suggested by various members. But read first what Vlk thinks about them, and then decide for yourself :-: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=13705.0

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Hi Spyros,

Maybe good the link did not work. But I put it there to get a reaction and get wiser.
Thanks for the reaction. Everyday one learns, and that goes on I think until one dies.

Have a very nice day,

polonus

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I like these sites to check if some result could be or not a false positive…
The Virus Total have the advantage to run in a windows server instead of a linux like Jotti…

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Hi VaMPiRiC_CRoW,

If you were giving the choice between such on line-scans. What would you prefer ActiveX or a Flash application, and why? I think second, but I do not know? Anybody has a view on this. Our Vlk says that the owner of virustotal is a malware collectioner, and that gives him second thoughts. When you have a zoo with wild animals, you would not set them loose at night, would you? I know there are virus factories in Bulgaria & to a lesser extent in Russia. They also exist in other places, I know about Brazil for instance ? (only of hearsay!)

greets,

polonus

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polonus,

Vlk knows if the owner of Virus Total send the samples to the AV companies?

Regards

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What about asking directly to him? :wink:

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Done… :stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t know about virus facories ::slight_smile: Besides from that most of the big outbreaks come from Germany or Asia :slight_smile:
And even if there are many viruses from Russia, we got the best cleaners in-house too :wink:

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Yes they do provide the AV companies with all the samples harvested… but anyway, they keep them for theirselves as well, of course…

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What is the problem to keep the samples if they sent them to the AV companies?

Exists collectors of stamps and others things, why not malware… :slight_smile:
It they use them badly…