Malware, Spyware and Viruses: No, Thanks!

Are you afraid of downloading programs and games to run into viruses or malware? Before uploading any file to daticloud.it we scan it with the most powerful antivirus available; Everything you find on our site has been tested and proven by us, does this guarantee 100% protection? Unfortunately not, let's see why:

How do antiviruses recognize viruses?

Viruses, Malware and Spyware are parts of usually hidden code, which have unwanted behaviors and effects on the part of the end user: for example, they modify the browser's default page, replace the advertisements of other apps and sites with their own, steal personal information, encrypt files and system settings, etc.

Antivirus scanning usually makes a comparison with already known virus codes; just as influenza viruses are recognized through DNA, computer viruses can be detected thanks to their binary code.

When the influenza virus mutates (modifying the DNA) antibiotics are ineffective, in the same way if the binary code of a computer virus is different it may no longer be recognized by the antivirus.

Antiviruses also look for parts of code that could lead to harmful effects, but in this case they can recognize programs as viruses that actually behave absolutely harmlessly.

Are Open Source software safe?

Thanks to their "open" code it is possible for anyone to control its functioning, thus being able to find illegal behavior, which however cannot happen in commercial software where it is not possible to look at the code, so in general an open source program is intrinsically more sure of a closed source equivalent.

Why don't we guarantee 100% protection?

As we anticipated in the previous paragraphs, it is not possible to have the absolute certainty of recognizing a virus, not even the most powerful and advanced antivirus is able to do this, indeed there is the illustrious case which occurred in 2014: a very widespread program for perform and resume downloads had backdoors inside that could cause large-scale DDOS attacks. No antivirus had ever considered this software to be harmful, only an in-depth analysis by a researcher was able to find this behavior.

In conclusion, it is absolutely senseless to guarantee with absolute certainty the absence of malicious code, which instead most download sites evoke with the words "100% virus free", which instead us We guarantee that we will do everything possible to prevent this type of program or game from being found on our site.