From the about page:

VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners.

Nothing will ever detect 100% of the maliciousness out there but at least you can throw about 54 antivirus scanners (at the time of this writing) at a suspicious file.

Never posted a link here before. It did something like codeproject.com/virustotal.com :laugh: I changed the link to just be the full address that you can copy and paste.

Had the exact e-mail before. A good metric to see what scanners are good is to upload the attachment to http://www.virustotal.com and see which scanners detect it. Neither MalwareBytes nor Symantec picked it up when I checked awhile ago.