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GNOME Has A New Security Threat Scanner Powered By VirusTotal

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 17 October 2025 at 04:32 PM EDT. 22 Comments
For those interested in scanning files for malware and other threat detection under Linux and using the GNOME desktop, Lenspect is a new GNOME-aligned application that is a GUI powered by VirusTotal for being a Linux-native security threat scanner.

As noted by This Week in GNOME, Lenspect has launched as a security threat scanner built atop Google-owned VirusTotal. In turn users of this GNOME-focused desktop application need to have their own VirusTotal API key.

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Lenspect is written in Python and makes use of the GTK toolkit. Lenspect 1.0 was released last week as the project's inaugural release. Lenspect is licensed under the GPLv3.

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Lenspect is available via Flathub or its sources can be grabbed from GitHub.

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