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Re-Ask HN: How to start Antivirus business (different timing)
from scratch?
I mean, software/tech aside, how does one get virus signatures?
Is there some repository, paid or free?
Your anecdotal experiences would be very interesting as well, in case anyone here runs some AV business.
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Re-asking this again. Previous "thread" with the only but very interesting commet:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570255
- zerr 14y agoClickable link to the previous "thread": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570255
- gvb 14y agoFWIIW, I have to scratch my head and wonder why you would want to start an AV company. The market seems to me to be saturated and has become a commodity... there are lots of free non-enterprise versions and the enterprise market is going to be extremely hard for a new, unproven company to break into. WRT signatures and databases, I would start by digging into ClamAV http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/ http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/ to see how they generate their signatures. I expect there is a lot of information that would help answer your questions on the mailing lists as well. http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/ http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/
- zerr 14y agoThanks for the response. Not that I'm going to start AV company at the moment, but I'm genuinely interested.