Is Your Email Attachment Clean or Infected? Check Here

In our day to life, we receive many emails. Some of them are of use and some are just there to get deleted. But many times you do get a mail with some attachment. When you are not sure, who the sender is or what the attachment is, its better not to open it. But sometimes we want it to get open and read the content or see whats in the attachment. It might be due to the subject which caught your attention or anything can be the reason.

Trojan virus is what you will always find in such attachment. This Trojan can send various information about to its receiver or can even hack your password or username.

Therefore, to prevent our self from any kind of hack from such un-suspicious mails, it should be scanned properly.

There are many ways to do so, download the attachment and scan it. But it cna also be an risk. After searching on google, i came an information, which can be very helpful. Simple, use email. Here’s what you can do to make sure that the attached file is safe and won’t harm your computer:

1. Forward that email message with the file attachment intact to scan@virustotal.com (limit is 10 MB)

2. Write SCAN in the Subject field of the forwarded message and delete the full body of the message. Send.

3. You should receive a virus report in the next few minutes.

The advantage of using Virustotal is that it doesn’t require you to download the file attachment to your computer and best of all, it scans your file across multiple antivirus software including AVG, Nod32, McAfee, F-Prot, etc so the chances are very high that infected email attachments will never go undetected.

If you have a file on the hard drive, upload that to virustotal.com via web browser and wait as this free service analyzes your file using different antivirus services.

Note: Remember that VirusTotal will only detect the virus in your files, it won’t clean the infected files.

Cheers!!!