I’ve come across several *suspiciously named files* in recent months… Windows has a funny habit of creating directories with seemingly random names, and caching/storing less than intuitively name executables in them… Yay Windows DEV team. Yay. Let’s continue to use a proprietary naming convention that raises suspicion, and pisses people [me] off. Thank you Garritt Grandberg for bestowing upon me, early on, the reason/idea for LOGICAL NAMING CONVENTIONS. Sit on it Microsoft. <rant />
At any rate, I have been using a free online tool to check the files I find: http://www.virustotal.com
I’ve not been let down since I started using it. That’s not to say that you’ll be able to build your security policy based of it’s findings, but they’ve done a solid job thus far.
As always, be smart about trusting anything you didn’t aquire yourself… just because some scanner says it’s safe, doesn’t mean you should try opening it on a hand full of machines. *cough-Wells_Fargo_employees-cough-cough*
Cheers
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