Blog VirusTotal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect

All the multi-engine antivirus programs make me wonder if a desktop-based scanner that functions like virustotal would be possible without licensing the programs but not breaking copyrights? I guess if a program became successful it couldn't be sold, or the EULA's for many AV softwares would be changed to stop this.

For example, have the program download the trial or shareware versions and extract the files in a virtual machine or from the files themselves?

For example, when microsoft created the core fonts for the web (eg verdana tahoma, andale mono, etc...) they forbade the distribution of the raw TTF files but they couldn't stop the redistribution of the original cab files, so linux programmers created the corefonts project with the cabextract program.


One are where this problem would be even more useful, imho, is having to use many different spyware scanners. I wish I could combine them all into one engine to speed up scanning. I work as a pc technician and this is a common complaint.

nProtect use them engine with BitDefender and Hauri.

I don't like nProtect anymore Because they make a game apps that always confilct with other security program installed.

Maybe this will help them to discover a "Worldwide" threats that the "Local" provider missed.

Note:I don't like Korean security product aymore.

Any chance to add the French VirusKeeper 2009 Pro (by AxBx) to the list of engines? Of course, it's about the signature-based engine, not the behavioral protection.