Ordinarily I'm a Windows Defender kinda guy but today Firefox flagged a download as containing a virus/malware which Defender scanned and found nothing. To be on the safe side it'd like another opinion. Anything recommended? Needs to be unobtrusive.
Lol you've already got 2 virus scanners, do you really need another?! Maybe just keep off the pron sites 😉
I hear McAfee is good, that's why it's bundled into so many OEM install. Top bloke as well. 😃
As above! 1 wasn't flagged, but then was by the browser. You've got two layers there already! Anything more will be various degrees of a pain in the arse/resource hog/pointless.
Caveat that I'm assuming this is personal use.
So how would you handle the conflict? Disregard the browser warning if nothing turns up in defender, or go back to client and ask them if their pc has virus?
I don’t you can have 2 virus checkers? I thought that the way they work was such that they’d just trigger each other
But I may have accidentally invented that
what are you downloading, and from where? What does Firefox specifically say the problem is?So how would you handle the conflict?
Not a Windows guy myself, but I thought Defender had a pretty good rep now & was generally thought to be all you actually need? So maybe Firefox generating a false positive?
Can't have two firewalls. I just wanted to manually scan the file with another virus scanner to determine if the report from Firefox was likely false or not. Thought that was sensible 🙄
Put the URL into Virustotal - it will let you know which of the many AV solutions are flagging it.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
Perfect thank you!
Use Cloudflare as your DNS resolver, using the block malicious IP addresses for their servers
https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/