Wednesday, April 8, 2009

single file scanning site

there are many file scanning sites out there, the best 2, in my opinion, are:
www.virustotal.com and virusscan.jotti.org

some facts:
www.virustotal.com
  • up to 20MB per file
  • do not need to scan the file if been scanned before (can call up previous scan report)
  • 40 scan engines (don't think this matters that much as only a few engines matter)
  • upload progress meter/indicator (this is handy)
  • upload is quite quick
virusscan.jotti.org
  • up to 10MB per file (re-verification needed)
  • cannot call up previous scan report
  • 20 scan engines
  • no upload progress meter/indicator
  • upload can stall sometimes and have no warning - this can be frustrating
  • this site is created by a fellow south african :) this is a big plus
remember, if you download apps/games via P2P, scan it. DON'T BE LAZY! Most of the time it contains something undesirable

second home!!

blogger.com is quite interesting - can log in using google account. that's a big plus for me. creating account for each and every place is just not for me

then another big plus, blogger.com doesn't seem to get blocked by the chinese government where as wordpress.com i needed to access via socks5/VPN - that's just very inconvenient especially the connection to my socks5 server (in taipei) is very unstable

now, looking forward to my new home at blogger.com :)

my old place is https://chrisinshanghai.wordpress.com/
not much there but it was my home