NexGuard, the antivirus that publishes its scanner

Why it surfaced

Its central promise is unusually inspectable: avtool is MIT-licensed, the source is published on GitHub, and the site says the scanner makes only a plain GET request for its hash list rather than uploading files or filenames. The result is a security product making a concrete argument for verification over vendor trust.

NexGuard offers an open-source malware scanner that checks files against a threat-hash list, with an optional $10/month subscription for a more frequently updated feed and multi-machine dashboard.