VirusTotal Policy Change (May 2016)

[SHvFl]

Same here. too many softs are using the works of others without limitations.



Voodooshield is an kind of anti-exe and doesn't have a homemade scanner, so they won't be allowed to use it.

They have Voodoo AI which can be considered a scanner. The interesting part is something else. How will VT act on reports. WIll they kill api access to the application until they do the steps or just inform the company and give it some time. Downtime in any application because of complications is a big issue and VT said nothing on what steps they will follow on reported companies.

 

[Av Gurus]

So, Process Explorer and Autoruns will drop options for VT checks?

 

[cruelsister]

No, this wouldn't affect PE or Autoruns in any way- they are informational only and not scanners.

A little background to the VT move- there have been rumblings that a sort of Class Action lawsuit was being considered by the established Security companies against Google (more properly Alphabet) for allowing the theft of proprietary data (their detections) by newly established companies that rely solely on the VT data. The suit against Alphabet would be a lot more efficient than filing Cease and Desist papers against every individual company that hijacks the VT data.

I'm sure that we will see various companies claim that they actually have a super-secret scanner in place and don't really rely on VT data anyway. Just be very skeptical of these statements while you await proof that they actually exist. You may be waiting for a very long time.

(and isn't it curious that the two Corporate security firms noted earlier that would be most affected were the only ones to appear in the Reuters article? Methinks that they doth protest too much.)

 

[jamescv7]

Virustotal did it only the right thing, many products abuse the usage of API as part of their main protection where actually its more on the comparison analysis.

So no need to complain or whining, VT established so many years to help and unfortunately some take it as granted to use without proper permission.

 

[Av Gurus]

Will Zemana AM be affected?

 

[enaph]

Will Zemana AM be affected?

As far as I know ZAM is not using VT's data.