If you're the type who doesn't keep a virus-scanning program running on your desktop out of memory concerns, or you find yourself at a system without your preferred scanner, you might want to think ...

In context: Launched in 2004 by Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas, VirusTotal is a renown online scanning system aggregating many third-party antivirus engines (we use it at TechSpot to scan ...

Popular file and URL scanning service VirusTotal released a new application that allows Mac OS X users to scan suspicious files with more than 50 antivirus engines supported by the service. The tool, ...

With so many security scares lately, it’s the perfect opportunity to make sure that your Mac security is as beefed up as possible. That’s why it’s good timing — both for Google and for us — that the ...

Google bought VirusTotal, an online virus and URL scanner, back in 2012 and it continues to run as an independent company even today. Their website and Mac app offers a very useful utility that lets ...

Google has acquired Web-based URL scanner VirusTotal in what may be an effort to improve browser security. In a blog post, VirusTotal says it will operate independently from Google and will keep its ...