Cybersecurity firm Chronicle, owned by Alphabet, announced the launch of a new VirusTotal service that promises to reduce false positives.
VirusTotal Monitor is a new service that allows software developers to upload their creations, before they are published, to a private cloud store in VirusTotal. Files in this private bucket are scanned with all 70+ antivirus engines in VirusTotal on a daily basis, using the latest detection signature sets. As soon as a file is detected as malicious by an engine, both the software developer and anti-virus vendors are notified.
This is a big win for anti-virus vendors, who now have context about a detected file: Who is the company behind it, when was it released etc.
This is equally a big win for software developers, as they can upload their creations to Monitor at pre-publish stage, to ensure a release without issues.
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