no more non-distribution for virustotal

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by ronjor, Jan 5, 2008.

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  1. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

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    Kurt Wismer
     
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    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

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