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Show HN: ViruSaas – Virus Checks as a Service (virusaas.com)
8 points by ManuelKiessling on Sept 14, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
Hi all,

here is a side project I've just launched which might come in handy for certain situations.

It's a very simple and free "do one thing and do it well" online service with exactly one feature: you upload a file, and it tells you — based on a ClamAV check — if that file contains a virus or not.

I'm not having any ambitious plans with this project, but thanks to very low operational costs, I thought I can as well put it out there and keep it alive — maybe it's even useful for some people every now and then (just today, one of my coworkers forwarded me a fishy-looking email with an attachment, and using virusaas.com turned out to be the least painful way to do this kind of one-off check for a virus).

I've also released the source code of the web app under GPLv3 at https://github.com/hygieia-saas/hygieia-webapp, although it's not as polished as it could be (no tests, for example — but see above, no ambitious plans).

The main reason to do the project was to follow through with my own tutorial at https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-react-singl..., which worked out quite nicely.



VirusTotal is best. I scanend a file that was reported as a virus on VirusTotal but yours says that the exe file is okay. It's faoling from the fucntionaluity point of view.

I was trying out this software: https://github.com/bmmlms/whatsmissing/

Here is the VT result: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/382a4ed54773b5ac4a27e9a8...

ViruSaas sees it as not virus.


Yeah, viruSaas uses ClamAV under the hood, which (also on VirusTotal) reports it as harmless.


Aight. Makes sense.


I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but virustotal.com fills this niche. Not only is it incredibly popular, many of my friends in the cyber security field use it regularly. It is ubiquitous there.

Great idea though!


Virustotal is the gold standard (and a part of google now) - this still looks like a fun project to have put together as a POC, though I doubt it can be monetized in it's current state.


That's fine, it's just a side project for learning new stuff, not a business case.




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