Google announced the news service της VirusTotal: το VirusTotal Monitor. Η νέα υπηρεσία δεν είναι δωρεάν, και έχει σχεδιαστεί για να παρέχει στους πελάτες της εταιρείας ημερήσιες αναφορές για τα archives that have been loaded into the service.
One of the main goals of VirusTotal Monitor is to mitigate false positives. "Alarms" false positives, we call the incorrect detection of malicious code in files. False positives are one of the biggest problems for security software companies but also for end users.
The software may not be installed on user computers if false positives occur and developers lose customers and their reliability.
In short, false positive alerts negatively affect everyone involved. So Google has been trying to reduce false positives since 2015 with the project Trusted Source.
VirusTotal Monitor is another attempt at the same problem. Basically, what Google is doing with the new service is offering monitoring (for a fee) on files uploaded to VirusTotal, for extra checking. So software development companies can controln their application libraries through VirusTotal automatically and on a regular basis.
VirusTotal generates reports and alerts companies if any of their scanning engines detect malware, potentially unwanted software, or any other problem that should not exist.
So companies and developers can react directly and resolve serious or non-serious issues before they reach the end user.
The keyword that describes the main advantage of VirusTotal Monitor is automation. Files are scanned automatically and developers and companies are automatically updated for each crawl.
You can get more information from the link below:
http://blog.virustotal.com/2018/06/vtmonitor-to-mitigate-false-positives.html
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