no more non-distribution for virustotal

[ronjor]

{QUOTE-> the hispasec folks announced thursday that they would be getting rid of the virustotal feature that allowed people to scan samples without submitting those samples to anti-malware companies when appropriate... <-QUOTE}Kurt Wismer (http://anti-virus-rants.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-more-non-distribution-for-virustotal.html)

[huangker]

This is the link to the blog post

http://blog.hispasec.com/virustotal/28

They spent a great majority of the article stating why the do not distribute to AV vendors option is not useful to malware vendors but finish with

{QUOTE-> Nevertheless, at VirusTotal we find appropriate to delete the anonymous and indiscriminate non-distribution option in our website to avoid possible suspicions on the use of VirusTotal. We apologize if this measure proves to be inconvenient for the people who used this option legitimately.


VirusTotal is a reliable service that works in close collaboration with the AV industry. All functionalities and decisions in VirusTotal are agreed upon with all AV developers that participate in our service, and we are open to all suggestions about improving our service so it proves more helpful for our community. <-QUOTE}

Sounds like it was pressure from the AV companies esp Kaspersky.

[Diver]

Its about time they did this. Let the malware writers use a pay service (that will probably steal the best ideas) to shape their warez.

Who was that masked man?