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Use virustotal to scan websites for virus

Open simonfrey opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Make unshort.link even safer by scanning urls for viruses before redirecting: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

simonfrey avatar Mar 13 '21 12:03 simonfrey

virustotal has a cost if using it above a certain hit rate. But totally agree that in these times of badware / phishing, a check as good as possible should be good. Maybe using some RBLs (as spam/virus filtering software does) is usefull (but they are not always free above a hit rate limit). Blocking complete domains or only looking at domain name is not always a good solution, as phishing sitse can very good hide themself inside a directory of an innocent site whose owner does not know it is present

Madydri avatar May 27 '21 20:05 Madydri