Do you sell any digital goods online? Have you received any complaint from few users saying their Antivirus is blocking the file? Here at ShoutMeLoud, I sell.

I use, as it’s more secure than Windows. Needless to say, I’m little paranoid about security. I ensure my system remains safe by using inbuilt Mac Firewall & stay away from downloading files from unreliable sources. Getting back to why I ended up searching for online virus scanner: has been downloaded more than 5000 times and in the past 2 months, I received 2 emails saying that their antivirus software ( to be precise) disabled the file access. Here is the email that I received.

How To Check Virus Online by Uploading File? Up searching for online virus scanner. You found any virus in your file uploaded on VirusScan or is your website. Printer Hp Deskjet 1000 Tinta Hitam Tidak Keluarga.

This was something unlikely to happen & I started digging more into this issue. The very first step was to check if the file is infected or not.

(Do read the second section to learn about virus false positive detection). My requirement was simple, as I needed one tool that could check the database of all popular antiviruses & detect any viruses, worms, trojans or malware in my uploaded file. While I was researching for the tool, I landed on a pretty awesome tool & also some interesting findings that you will be learning in this article. VirusTotal: An online Tool to check a file to Viruses or Malware is a free online virus checker tool where you can upload any file & it would test it for the presence of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware. Along with file upload, you can also check any online website/URL & find out if they contain any viruses. This is useful for bloggers as they often get warning that their site has been compromised, and with Virustotal you can quickly check your page to clarify your suspicion.

The tool is pretty easy to use. You can head to their homepage; click on “choose file” to upload any file from your computer (Up to 128 MB) & click on Scan it. The tool will analyze your file with all popular antiviruses & show you the result on the next page along with detected warning. Here is what happened when I scanned one of my ebooks: Even though Virustotal suggested this file to be harmless, but was showing “ PDF:UrlMal-inf [Trj]” error. Canon 220 240v Driver For Windows 10.

That means any user who has Avast anti-virus will get a warning just like Digitalud got one above. What is PDF:UrlMal-inf [Trj] & how to fix? This is where things get interesting as I started researching more about PDF:UrlMal-inf [Trj] warning. After a bit of probing, I got the solution from Avast official support as many other users faced the similar warning. One user who was using to create a for himself also got such warning. Here is what Kevin experienced: So the issue is with the Web shield module of Avast Antivirus & a response from Avast staff made the situation clear.

This is what Avast support staff suggested: Hello, This detection means that the PDF contains some URL that is blocked. For more info send us the PDF through ->Avast Virus Lab Usually, a PDF file has many weblinks & if there is any link that is blocked by Avast, they will block the file access with the warning.

This issue could happen with any Word doc or any file that contains a hyperlink to a website that is blocked by Avast database. At this moment, I couldn’t find a resource online which could let me check which URL is that, so here is what I did & hope it would help anyone in a similar condition like me.

Head & create a support ticket. Let them know about the issue & also attach the file that is blocked by Avast or showing PDF: UrlMal-inf [Trj] issue in VirusTotal. This is what I emailed them: Now, all you need to do is wait for Avast support team to reply back & you can remove the URL that is blocked by them. In Kevin’s case, it was a popular site called Couchsurfing.com. Another workaround: Here is another workaround which would work when you have few links in your pdf or doc file. You can remove all links & add them one by one.

After adding every link, either use VirusTotal or scan it using Avast online scanner to find the link that is blocking. At this moment, the only suggestion is to remove the link from your file & notify the Website owner about this issue. Hp Designjet 500 42 Hpgl2 Card Driver. Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis Patch 1.99 Download here. In most of the cases, the website owner will reach out to Avast team to whitelist their website.

Bonus tip for Website owners who are blocked by Avast Web-shield: Most of the time Avast blocks a website because your server I.P. Might be listed in Anti-spam database. This is very common with shared hosting users who are sharing same I.P.

With over hundreds of other sites. You can check using to see if your server I.P. Is banned in any of the spam databases.