• sanitation@lemmy.radioOP
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      4 hours ago

      I disagree. Even 10 years ago you could pay 15$ and people would repack their exe withalware for you and virus total would not pick it up. I’ve seen it personally.

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      The site is legit, but it only matches against AV provider databases. In other words it only detects known viruses and malicious URLs

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        I think some of the engines use heuristic detection methods as well but of course it’s mostly a tool to detect known viruses using pretty much all the scanners available on the market.