Metascan Online – Free Multi-scan Antimalware Online Service
Metascan Online, by OPSWAT, allows you to quickly
multi-scan your files for malware using 43 antivirus engines! Its
multi-scanning technology enables rapid results. In just seconds, your files
are scanned for viruses and other malware using 43 anti-malware engines
simultaneously.
What is Metascan?
Metascan is a powerful and flexible solution for
detecting and preventing known and unknown threats. ISVs, IT admins and malware
researchers use Metascan to get easy access to multiple anti-malware engines at
a single time, via a rich set of APIs.
This technology is available through Metascan Online via
the web interface and API, as well as through an on-premises version of
Metascan that can be deployed in your own environment and even offline, with
additional features like document sanitization available.
Why
Multi-scanning?
No anti-malware engine is perfect. With more than 8
million new threats emerging each month, it would be impossible for any single
product to provide guaranteed protection 100% of the time. For organizations
that need enhanced security, using multiple anti-malware engines can increase
detection rates significantly.
The chart to the right shows the detection of several
keyloggers by ten anti-malware engines, demonstrating how Metascan can provide
enhanced detection rates of threats, including outbreaks.
Metascan leverages many anti-malware engines from vendors
like ESET, AVG, Microsoft, Bitdefender, Symantec, F-Secure, Kaspersky Lab,
McAfee, and many others, benefitting from their detection algorithms and
heuristics to increase detection rates for all types of malware, including
attacks specifically targeting Windows, Linux, Android and other operating
systems. Metascan technology eliminates the hassle of licensing, modifying, and
maintaining multiple anti-malware engines; all engines integrated into Metascan
products are optimized to scan simultaneously for fast, high performance
scanning.
Metascan Online currently includes engines from Symantec,
McAfee, ESET, Norman, AVG and many others.
Prevent unknown
threats
To prevent advanced threats that might be missed by
anti-malware engines from entering your organization, Metascan can sanitize
potentially dangerous file types to thwart zero-day and targeted attacks. In
addition, Metascan can identify and block files that have spoofed file type
extensions, which indicates potential malicious intent. The combination of
scanning data with anti-malware engines first, leveraging the power of their
individual heuristic analyses, followed by converting potentially risky files
to remove embedded threats greatly decreases the chances of your network being
infected by an unknown threat.
What is IP
scanning?
Metascan Online now allows you to check IP addresses for
malicious behavior using multiple IP reputation sources.
Limitation
140 MB Maximum File Size.
About OPSWAT
OPSWAT is a San Francisco-based software company that
provides solutions to secure and manage IT infrastructure. Founded in 2002,
OPSWAT delivers solutions that provide manageability of endpoints and networks,
and helps organizations protect against zero-day attacks by using multiple
anti-malware engine scanning and document sanitization. OPSWAT’s intuitive
applications and comprehensive development kits are deployed by SMB, enterprise
and OEM customers to more than 100 million endpoints worldwide.
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