Our Mission
ScanTotal was built with a simple belief: everyone deserves access to security tools, not just tech professionals. Every day, millions of people receive suspicious links, questionable files, and scam messages. Most don't have the technical background to know whether something is safe, and they shouldn't need one.
We created ScanTotal to be the simplest, fastest way to check if something is a threat. Paste a URL, upload a file, or drop in a suspicious message, and get an instant answer. No sign-up required. No data stored. No cost.
What We Do
ScanTotal is a free, web-based security scanning platform that brings together multiple threat detection tools in one place. Our platform currently offers five core scanning capabilities:
URL Scanner checks web addresses against multiple security databases to identify phishing sites, malware distribution pages, and known scam domains. Before you click a suspicious link, check it here first.
File Hash Checker computes a file's cryptographic fingerprint in your browser and compares it against our signature list. It is a narrow tool: a match is a reliable warning, but no match only means the file is not in our list, so it is not a substitute for antivirus software.
SMS Scam Analyzer examines text messages for common scam patterns, suspicious links, and social engineering tactics. Paste any suspicious text message to get an instant analysis of whether it's legitimate or a scam attempt.
Email Analyzer checks email files (.eml) for phishing indicators, spoofed sender information, suspicious attachments, and malicious links. Upload a suspicious email to understand whether it's genuine or an attack.
QR Code Scanner decodes and analyzes QR codes to reveal where they actually lead before you scan them with your phone. This protects against "quishing": phishing attacks hidden behind QR codes.
Our Principles
Free for everyone. All of our scanning tools are completely free to use. We believe security shouldn't be a premium feature. It should be accessible to every person on the internet, regardless of their budget or technical knowledge.
Privacy first. We don't require you to create an account, and we never store what you scan: not the URL, not the message text, not the file. We do keep an anonymous count of how many checks of each type run, so we can publish our threat statistics. Nothing in that count identifies you.
Simplicity matters. We design our tools to be usable by anyone: your parents, your grandparents, and your non-technical friends. If a security tool is too complicated for regular people to use, it's not doing its job.
Education alongside tools. Tools are only part of the solution. That's why we maintain a blog with practical, jargon-free guides on staying safe online. Understanding threats is just as important as detecting them.
Our Technology
ScanTotal is built on Cloudflare's global edge network, so it responds quickly wherever you are. The depth of analysis differs by tool, and we would rather be plain about that than imply everything is equally thorough.
Our URL scanner uses a proprietary three-engine detection system: heuristic risk scoring that analyses URL structure for suspicious patterns, real-time active analysis that probes URLs to detect what they actually serve (including binary file analysis and malware family identification), and Google Safe Browsing, one of the world's largest threat databases.
For file checking, we compute cryptographic hashes client-side using the Web Crypto API and compare them against our signature list. Your files never leave your browser; only the hash is sent. That list is small and fixed, so we report "no known match" rather than "safe" when nothing matches.
Our URL reputation data comes from Google Safe Browsing, one of the world's largest repositories of known phishing and malware URLs, combined with our own heuristic and active-analysis engines.
Why ScanTotal Exists
Cybercrime is growing every year. Phishing attacks, scam websites, malware, and online fraud cost individuals and businesses billions of dollars annually. The people most affected are often those with the least technical knowledge: older adults, students, small business owners, and everyday internet users who just want to browse safely.
Professional cybersecurity tools exist, but they're designed for IT teams and security analysts. Regular people need something different: a tool that's instant, obvious, and requires zero expertise. That's the gap ScanTotal fills.
We're committed to continually improving our scanning capabilities, expanding our educational content, and making the internet a little safer for everyone who uses it.
Who's Behind ScanTotal
ScanTotal is built and operated by Kumari Rajapaksha, Founder and Lead Consultant, based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kumari is a business consultant and technology strategist with deep expertise in business administration. Her work focuses on helping organisations navigate new opportunities through modern technological evolution, from digital transformation to data-driven decision-making. Alongside her consulting practice, she is committed to community and social service initiatives, which led her to found ScanTotal: a free, accessible security platform built to protect everyday internet users who don't have IT departments looking out for them.
ScanTotal is a small independent project rather than a company with a security research team. Kumari builds and runs it with her partner, and the scanning engines, blog content and signature updates are their own work.
About the Business
ScanTotal is an independent Australian business operated by Kumari Rajapaksha (ABN 56 713 677 382), based in Melbourne, VIC.
- ABN: 56 713 677 382
- Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Contact: contact@scantotal.net
Get in Touch
Have questions, feedback, or suggestions? We'd love to hear from you. Visit our Contact page or email us directly at contact@scantotal.net.