Want To Scan A File Before Downloading It. Is That Possible And How?

To add a quick note here, if a link is not detected as malicious that does not means that the file that it will download will not be malicious. There is no harm in downloading the file since downloading the file will not make your PC malicious, downloading and then executing the file might make your PC malicious.

So, my take here would be that if the link is leading to downloading of a particular file which you suspect can be malicious, there is no harm in downloading the file, but once you download the file, do not double click or execute it and upload the file directly on virustotal.com to check if the specific file is detected as malicious by any antimalware vendor.

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