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[โ€“] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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.