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polonus
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Is this reliable or a roque scanner?
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January 04, 2008, 09:36:51 PM »
I saw this:
http://www.virscan.org/
Is this a reliable multiscanner or fishy?
Who to comment?
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Re: Is this reliable or a roque scanner?
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January 04, 2008, 09:44:00 PM »
Hmm... Not impressed by the contact address:
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flowerpig#gmail.com
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Re: Is this reliable or a roque scanner?
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January 04, 2008, 10:08:06 PM »
Both Dr. Web and LinkScanner report nothing, but nothing better than Alwil team - which appears there - to drop a word about the service. For sure they have contacted Alwil team.
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Re: Is this reliable or a roque scanner?
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January 04, 2008, 11:07:26 PM »
Hi malware fighters,
I was sure I read something about it, shun this one:
http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=208187473
It is about malcreants helping malcreants,
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January 04, 2008, 11:17:50 PM »
Just tried it, got FP's from scanning gmer.exe(i had to scan something) by F-Prot and Prevx so i guess it works.
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This scanner is safe to use.
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Quote from: RejZoR on January 04, 2008, 11:46:09 PM
This scanner is safe to use.
Any other info
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