We performed a comparison between MetaDefender and VirusTotal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."I like the simplicity, the way it works out of the box. It's pretty easy to run and configure. The integration of the network devices with the ICAP server was easily done."
"With VirusTotal, I can check for any hash, malware, file, domain, IP URL, or malicious URL, and Kaspersky stays clean."
"The most valuable feature is the worldwide malware information database."
"The documentation is not well written, and I often need to talk with support."
"I would like to see an improved user interface and some automation."
"VirusTotal is hard to understand because you need to know Google Docs to create queries, and it doesn't have documentation for that."
MetaDefender is ranked 17th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review while VirusTotal is ranked 8th in Anti-Malware Tools with 2 reviews. MetaDefender is rated 9.0, while VirusTotal is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of MetaDefender writes "Blocks malicious files , has a low false-positive rate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VirusTotal writes "A highly stable solution that can be used to manually investigate data leaks, compromised information, and malware". MetaDefender is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Symantec Content Analysis and Forcepoint ZT CDR (Zero Trust Content Disarm & Reconstruction), whereas VirusTotal is most compared with Cuckoo Sandbox, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, ANY.RUN, Recorded Future and ReversingLabs.
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