blog: safer downloads with virustotal

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Jan 03, 11:42

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://zabkat.com/blog/03Jan10-virustotal-hash.htm

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 03, 15:37

But be aware of false positives. Some things (like Keygens :lol: ) are regularly detected as Trojans or something.

svott · Post by **svott** » 2010 Jan 04, 04:34

Hashtab is a very useful shell extension, but the author forces you to accept a very unorthodox and controversial license agreement before it will install !

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Jan 04, 06:02

he is obviously out for a giggle on this

his website is also flagged red by siteadvisor but only because of an outgoing link, it won my confidence despite this

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 04, 09:12

nikos wrote:he is obviously out for a giggle on this

Probably the email domain of @beeblebrox.org gave it away.

Ardax · Post by **Ardax** » 2010 Jan 04, 18:01

HashCheck is far, far better than HashTab.

My post on the Ars OpenForum sums up why.

Edit: Linkify things.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 04, 18:17

None of your pro arguments have any advantages for the procedure mentioned in the blog article.

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Jan 29, 11:37

i stumbled on this from the virustotal guys themselves, virustotal updater
http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html
context menu extension that checks the hash first then uploads if necessary