While you may have an antivirus application installed on your machine, no scanner can boast a 100% detection rate. If you are particularly concerned that a file you have acquired may have spyware, adware, or other malware, increase the odds that problems will be detected by using a variety of different engines. Even though it is not recommended to run multiple engines simultaneously on your system, you can scan a file with multiple engines with the free scanner from VirSCAN.org.

VirSCAN.org lets you upload a file up to 20 megabytes for analysis (ZIP/RAR files can have up to 20 files) by the following scanners:

* a-squared
* AhnLab V3
* AntiVir
* Antiy
* Arcavir
* Authentium
* AVAST!
* AVG
* BitDefender
* CA (VET)
* ClamAV
* Comodo
* CP Secure
* Dr.Web
* F-Prot
* F-Secure
* Fortinet
* GData
* ViRobot
* Ikarus
* JiangMin
* Kaspersky
* KingSoft
* McAfee
* Microsoft
* mks_vir
* Norman
* Panda
* Trend Micro
* Quick Heal
* Rising
* Sophos
* Sunbelt
* Symantec
* nProtect
* The Hacker
* VBA32
* VirusBuster

After submitting the file the website displays an auto-updating analysis as it is tested by the multiple scanners. Testing may take a while to complete based on the size of the file and server load. When complete you will see whether or not the file contains malware according to the used scanners.

* VirSCAN.org

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