• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The site is legit, but it only matches against AV provider databases. In other words it only detects known viruses and malicious URLs

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      3 hours ago

      I think some of the engines use heuristic detection methods as well but of course it’s mostly a tool to detect known viruses using pretty much all the scanners available on the market.