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What do you use to scan executables for viruses/malware?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

virustotal.com

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just raw dog that shit and hope for the best

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

me too but im on linux so i can do firejail lutris (or firejail steam or whatever for legit stuff) and run that shit in a security container.

[–] generalEdo 10 points 1 year ago

TIL about firejail and I am excited to try it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just trust windows defender lol

[–] bernieecclestoned 4 points 1 year ago

Same here, the 'only' exe files I download are mods for Assetto Corsa, I'm hoping smart people would spot any malware 😬

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A mix of avira and malwarebytes locally, and virustotal if I'm especially sceptical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Windows Defender and for files less than 600 megs virustotal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Linux and never really bothered scanning for viruses. Is ClamAV a good start?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ClamAV is good.

You can also run a VM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

usually just upload it to virus total

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Windows Anti malware and Windows Firewall to block the exe from network