Before you download, open, or share files from the internet, you need to be sure they’re safe. And how do you do that? I simply use a file scanner to check for known threats like malware, viruses, and ...

VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs, facilitating the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. It thus enables ...

Last week saw some great updates to Google Drive's document scanner. First of all, it's finally available on iPhone (thank god), but the Android version also received some exclusive new features, ...

You weren’t expecting the email attachment you just received. Or a website is asking you to install software you don’t recognize. Or a friend whose computer is ...

To check, scan and restore a potentially corrupted system file, run Command Prompt as Administrator. The command to be used is: If System File Checker finds corruption, and it is successfully able to ...

Since iOS 11, Apple's stock Notes app has featured an impressive built-in tool for scanning documents and saving them as a note. In iOS 13, Apple has added a similar tool to the Files app that lets ...

Microsoft's free antivirus comes built-in to Windows 8 as Windows Defender, but it doesn't have an option to scan individual files by right-clicking on them. Our friends at the How-To Geek show us how ...