We performed a comparison between Symantec Content Analysis 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."We use Symantec Content Analysis for malware scanning."
"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 solution's alerting and reporting are basic and could use some improvement."
"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."
Symantec Content Analysis is ranked 31st in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review while VirusTotal is ranked 8th in Anti-Malware Tools with 2 reviews. Symantec Content Analysis is rated 7.0, while VirusTotal is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Symantec Content Analysis writes "The solution can be used for malware scanning, but its alerting and reporting could be improved". 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". Symantec Content Analysis is most compared with MetaDefender and Forcepoint ZT CDR (Zero Trust Content Disarm & Reconstruction), whereas VirusTotal is most compared with Cuckoo Sandbox, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, MetaDefender, ANY.RUN and Recorded Future.
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