Many of you know that not all virus programs are guaranteed to pickup all viruses. While some programs tend to lead in terms of having the most complete antivirus definitions, no one program has 100% complete virus definitions. Even if you were to do your homework, citing studies done under the scientific method, not one program would have 100% detection based on just one antivirus companies’ antivirus definitions.

Because of the lack of 100% detection in any antivirus client, there is always a chance that the current antivirus you’re using has not detected a virus in a file you’ve downloaded. Potentially you could have a virus, and just not know it yet.

This is where free web based services like VirusTotal.com come into play. Continue Reading