Google has announced a new service from VirusTotal: VirusTotal Monitor. The new service is not free, and is designed to provide the company's customers with daily reports on the files uploaded to the service.
One of the main goals of VirusTotal Monitor is to mitigate false positives. False positives are the false detection of malicious code in files. False positives are one of the biggest problems for security software companies and end users.
The software risks not even being installed on users' computers in case of false positives, and development companies lose customers and their credibility.
In short, false positive warning messages negatively affect everyone involved. So Google has been trying to reduce false positives since 2015 with the Trusted Source project.
VirusTotal Monitor is another attempt to address the same problem. Basically, what Google is doing with the new service is that it offers paid monitoring of files uploaded to VirusTotal, for additional control. This way, software developers can check their application libraries through VirusTotal automatically and on a regular basis. VirusTotal
generates reports and notifies companies if any of its scanning engines detect malware, potentially unwanted software, or any other problem that shouldn't be there.
This way, companies and developers can react immediately 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 informed of each detection.
You can get more information from the following link:
https://blog.virustotal.com/2018/06/vtmonitor-to-mitigate-false-positives.html
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