{"id":8853,"date":"2024-11-12T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:36","slug":"downloaded-file-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/downloaded-file-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloaded File Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Downloaded File Check\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Do you need to download and installs software from the internet? Someone sent you an attachment and you want to run it? Check it first to see if its safe to use!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best way to check for viruses is using a virus scanner. Why use a single virus scanner when you can use 50 different scanners at the same time? Check your&nbsp; program by uploading it to VirusTotal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good Practice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>make sure your virus scanner is up-to-date<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If your unsure that the hosting site is secure, check the URL using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VirusTotal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many sites will list md5 hash of your download, once downloaded verify the hashes match<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you need to download and installs software from the internet? Someone sent you an attachment and you want to run it? Check it first to see if its safe to use!! The best way to check for viruses is using a virus scanner. Why use a single virus scanner when you can use 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}