Metascan® Online has a multi-scanning option for files, as well as IP addresses. This option allows you to scan an IP address against over 10 different reputation sources. The benefits of multi-scanning in both file scanning and IP scanning are very similar: it increases the likelihood of detecting malware sooner. For more information about multi-scanning, you can check out our previous posts. When an IP address is scanned on Metascan Online, it is checked against a number of IP reputation sources, lists of IPs that are sources of malware, command and control servers, phishing websites and more. Similar to file scanning with multiple vendors, IP scanning with multiple sources offers faster detection of infected IP addresses. Scanning an IP address with Metascan Online Just as a file scan can result in a false positive, so can an IP scan result. A while back, we had a post of a list