3 hours ago
Sat Dec 27, 2025 3:38am PST
Why does VirusTotal give different results depending on how I upload the file?
Why does VirusTotal give different results for what appears to be the same file, when the download URL is given ...

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/9525d0fe32cebf7933bf84dcfad93811e799c7e8460e374f230a232893a1ba9a

... and when the file hash is given (I download the file from the URL and then upload it to VirusTotal, using my browser) ...

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/03a234060541b686ac4265754aff43df9325c21383f90e17f831e67965d717f8

(My expectation is that it also computes the hash from the file found at the download url)

To add to this, the file lives on my system as "Optimizer-16.7.exe", but the VirusTotal GUI, after I upload that file, gives it as "Optimizer.exe"

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