ESET Threat Blog: VirusTotal, Useful Engines, and Useful AV

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BY DAVID HARLEY
April 2, 2012

In a recent blog on whether security professionals really don't use anti-virus (sorry, but quite a few of us do!) I mentioned a paper by myself and Julio Canto on the use and misuse of multi-scanner sites like VirusTotal. Especially the (Virus-)totally inappropriate use of VT reports as some sort of substitute for real comparative testing.

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