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Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the fighting-back dept.

Google launched today a new set of services for enterprise customers of VirusTotal, a website that lets users test suspicious files and URLs against an aggregate of multiple antivirus scanning engines at the same time. From a report: This collection of new tools is part of the new VirusTotal Enterprise service, which Google described as "the most significant upgrade in VirusTotal's 14-year history." As the name implies, this new service is specifically aimed at enterprise customers and is an expansion of VirusTotal's current Premium Services. Google says VirusTotal Enterprise consists of existing VirusTotal capabilities, but also new functionality, such as improved threat detection and a faster search system that uses a brand new interface that unifies capabilities in VirusTotal's free and paid sites. "VirusTotal Enterprise allows users to search for malware samples (using VT Intelligence), hunt for future malware samples (using VT Hunt with YARA), analyze malware relationships (using VT Graph), and automate all these tasks with our API," Google said.

36 comments

  1. Google Miracle Max's the corpse of your privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Heh. Stuff some of Google's code into this thing and see what it says.

    Will it go for

    1. This code sold out to Chinese totalitarians to help them jail and torture
    2. This code is going all Miracle Max on the corpse of your all-dead privacy looking for small change.

  2. Google scanning ALL your documents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no, thanks.

    1. Re:Google scanning ALL your documents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I won't send them documents.

      But any virus I will develop, will be tested against this "total" service, and not deployed until none of their detectors are able to figure it out. Thanks for collecting all the tests in one place, so I won't have to . . .

    2. Re: Google scanning ALL your documents? by ole_timer · · Score: 1

      +5 - of course you send them the hash and not the file...

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      nothing to see here - move along
    3. Re:Google scanning ALL your documents? by ole_timer · · Score: 1

      send the hash moron...

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      nothing to see here - move along
  3. Today I learned... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that virustotal is run by Google. Didn't know that.

    1. Re:Today I learned... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      same here but that explains why you have to have javascript enabled (the better to track you with. augments for http uploads aren't necessary for most samples submitted) and why the site fucked up 10x in a row on two different browsers and systems this past week trying to send a 1 megabyte sample. also explains their 'never deletes' and will-share-with-anyone-who-pays policy regarding submissions

    2. Re:Today I learned... by Ambient+Sheep · · Score: 2

      Same here. Came to post the exact same thing. Most disquieting; when did THAT happen?

    3. Re:Today I learned... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      2012 https://blog.virustotal.com/2012/09/an-update-from-virustotal.html

    4. Re:Today I learned... by infolation · · Score: 1
      Which generated the following virustotal blog comment that sums up its userbases' reaction to the news:

      Anonymous 9 September 2012 at 04:29
      FUCK VIRUSTOTAL!
      DISTRIBUTING PEACE OF BALLS

    5. Re:Today I learned... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Not to mention

      Your mom

  4. Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not me. Alphabet is trash

  5. Sadly, extremely expensive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This seemed extremely useful to one of the projects we are working on, but sadly this service is extremely expensive.

    Any kind of commercial use of the API requires licensing and licensing starts at â18,840/month. :(

  6. Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google, a company knows for its unquenchable thirst for your personal data, proposes a virus scanning service that only requires you to let them read the entirety of your files.

    I don't know... If Ricky Martin opened an online shoe business only requiring you to send photos of your feet to determine your shoe size, would you send him?

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    1. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      If Ricky Martin opened an online shoe business only requiring you to send photos of your feet to determine your shoe size, would you send him?

      Yes.

    2. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by rtb61 · · Score: 2

      I mean really, the whole idea of sending you files, all of them to Google to scan, really off putting. Almost as bad as Windows anal probe 10 scanning your hard disk drive and reporting it's contents back to M$ and their being able to delete files whole sale. Which is worse, kind of like, as bad as each other, M$ is now slightly better than Google, only because Google thinks it is a OK to fuck with elections across the planet to favour the candidates that favour it, allow mass privacy invasions et al. M$ is just a crap, unreliable and not to be trusted supplier and Google, well, evil is as evil does and corrupting elections is as evil as it gets.

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    3. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by Rockoon · · Score: 1

      How many counts of copyright violations will Google be a party to while running this service? Seems to me that a nearly 100% violation rate is possible.

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      "His name was James Damore."
    4. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've used this multiple times in the past to submit executable files from questionable sources (shareware etc) for testing and found it very useful. There's no personal data submitted by me (besides my IP connecting to them) and it quickly identifies adware etc. I would never upload a document with personal information or something like that, but I feel there is a good use case here (not a blanket AV solution). That Google runs it... meh. Even though I know they bloody data mine every search I do, they still offer the best results when I really need to find something. Rather the evil you know... or do it yourself and spend your live in a cave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HXgPGZcXe4

    5. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by ole_timer · · Score: 1

      most normal people only send the hash - others, those who can't read, like you apparently, send the whole file...

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      nothing to see here - move along
    6. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? by ayesnymous · · Score: 1

      Why would you send your files to Google? I presume you know your own files are safe. I would only use it to scan a file that I just downloaded.

  7. Allow me to say: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Fuck Google!

  8. Only 19 Ã / month? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Zatt sounts like a wunderbar deal, mein Herr!

  9. Gather all the data! by zmooc · · Score: 1

    I see Google has also learned from the Nghia Hoang Pho situation what the value of casually running a malware collection service is :p

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  10. Let me take a wild guess... by k.a.f. · · Score: 1

    ...the terms of service state that you relinquish any and all exclusive rights on whatever documents you upload, and that Alphabet can use them for any conceivable purpose whatsoever. Am I right? What do I win?

    1. Re:Let me take a wild guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are trusting your current antivirus program not to do that. Google may have started sliding down evil hill but that you think other companies aren't already farther down the slope is humorous.

  11. New Feature: Chinese Backdoors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Everything gets sent back to Big Daddy in Beijing for analysis.

  12. Goggle already by Bodhammer · · Score: 1

    Google already is a total virus.

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    "I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
  13. Re:Come at me bro ! I could use another notch... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I know you type tough but you surely can't talk that tough with all that dick in your mouth.