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VirusTotal
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Type of siteInternet security, file and URL analyzer
Available inArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), English (GB), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
HeadquartersDublin, Ireland
Area servedWorldwide
Created byHispasec Sistemas
General managerBernardo Quintero
Key peopleBernardo Quintero, Emiliano Martínez, Víctor Manuel Álvarez, Karl Hiramoto, Julio Canto, Alejandro Bermúdez, Juan A. Infantes
ParentGoogle LLC (2012–2018)
Chronicle (2018–present)
URLwww.virustotal.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJune 2004; 20 years ago (2004-06)
Current statusActive

VirusTotal is a website created by the Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas. Launched in June 2004, it was acquired by Google in September 2012. The company's ownership switched in January 2018 to Chronicle, a subsidiary of Google.

VirusTotal's modus operandi is multiscanning. It aggregates many antivirus products and online scan engines called Contributors. In November, 2018, the Cyber National Mission Force, a unit subordinate to the U.S. Cyber Command became a Contributor. The aggregated data from these Contributors allows a user to check for viruses that the user's own antivirus software may have missed, or to verify against any false positives. Files up to 650 MB can be uploaded to the website, or sent via email (max. 32MB). Anti-virus software vendors can receive copies of files that were flagged by other scans but passed by their own engine, to help improve their software and, by extension, VirusTotal's own capability. Users can also scan suspect URLs and search through the VirusTotal dataset. VirusTotal uses the Cuckoo sandbox for dynamic analysis of malware. VirusTotal was selected by PC World as one of the best 100 products of 2007.

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References

  1. Lardinois, Frederic (7 September 2012). "Google Acquires Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner VirusTotal". TechCrunch. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  2. VirusTotal Team (7 September 2012). "An update from VirusTotal". Blog.virustotal.com. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  3. "Credits & Acknowledgements : About VirusTotal". VirusTotal. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  4. "Example Report". Virustotal.com. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  5. "Contributors". VirusTotal.
  6. "New CNMF initiative shares malware samples with cybersecurity industry > U.S. Cyber Command > News". www.cybercom.mil. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  7. "About VirusTotal". Virustotal.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  8. "Credits of VirusTotal". Virustotal.com. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  9. Dahl, Eric (21 May 2007). "The 100 Best Products of 2007". PCWorld. IDG Consumer & SMB. Retrieved 3 June 2016.

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