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Question: Does virustotal scrape data from Norton, McAfee and the 20 to 50 scanning engines they use, or do they have a paid licensing arrangement with them? [I
by mmaunder 14y ago
Question: Does virustotal scrape data from Norton, McAfee and the 20 to 50 scanning engines they use, or do they have a paid licensing arrangement with them? [I use the term scraping loosely e.g. they could run the file against a local instance of each scanner, upload the file to other websites, etc]
- huhtenberg 14y agoI'm pretty sure they have a set of servers each running a licensed copy of every AV software they support, all scripted and automated in some form or fashion. I am really puzzled as to why Google needed to acquire them. It surely wasn't a technology acquisition.
- dpeck 14y agoThey've got a hell of a dataset and lot of users/partners that push sample data to them all the time. Even if they lose some of those because people don't want to deal with GOOG its still huge information source that they will probably be able to put to better use than most anyone else.