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Old May 1st, 2008, 07:58 PM
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Ever seen a title like this before? Do you know what it means? It usually means that the author didn’t actually test the malware sample on 32 Windows machines, each protected by a different AV product, but that he uploaded the sample to the free VirusTotal service and received a report.
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Old May 1st, 2008, 08:26 PM
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Thanks for the link, Ron.
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And remember, when you’re using the VirusTotal service, you’re testing your submitted sample, you’re not testing the AV products. At most, you could say you’re testing bare AV engines with a configuration that is unknown to you.
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Hi ron, thanks for the link,good read.
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Great reading material!!
 

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