Google has just bought a startup company called VirusTotal. Anti-virus companies are projected to Google in order to protect the products made by them.
VirusTotal analysis offers online services for free files and URLs to identify viruses, worms, trojans, and other malicious applications. File and URL is detected with the engine from a variety of leading anti-virus companies such as Symantec and McAfee.
Users can upload files with great suspicion, up to 32MB to VirusTotal server. Langsund analysis results can be obtained in a matter of minutes.
The data collected will be sent to the network security companies in cooperation with VirusTotal. This data is a source of valuable information for the security industry about new threats and potential targets of attacks.
Information held by VirusTotal will be useful for Google. With the information I have the additional weapon to protect flagship products, such as Gmail, the search results of search engines, and also Google+.
"We are delighted to Google, our longtime colleague, has acquired VirusTotal. This is good news for you and bad news for malware writers," said VirusTotal, through its official blog.
With this acquisition, VirusTotal are also increasingly confident in delivering its services. According to the company that has been established for 8 years, development tools malware research will continue to develop their property. Infrastructure We are always ready when needed.
"VirusTotal will continue to work independently, maintain collaboration partnerships with other anti-virus companies and security experts," said VirusTotal.
Google did not announce the price they had to pay to get a VirusTotal. Google also declined to comment.
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