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Title: Google-owned VirusTotal starts analyzing Mac malware in a sandbox Post by: HCK on November 19, 2015, 03:00:17 pm Google-owned VirusTotal starts analyzing Mac malware in a sandbox
<article> <section class="page"> <p>VirusTotal, the most widely used online file-scanning service, is now executing suspicious Mac apps submitted by users inside a sandbox to generate information that could improve the analysis and detection of Mac malware.</p><p>This comes at a time when, according to security vendors, the number of potentially unwanted Mac OS X applications, especially adware programs (https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2015/10/is-mac-malware-on-the-rise/), is at an all time high.</p><p>VirusTotal, a Google-owned service, allows users to upload suspicious files and scan them with 54 different antivirus products. However, its scan results are not perfect and should not be taken as guarantees that files are safe.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3006306/security/google-owned-virustotal-starts-analyzing-mac-malware-in-a-sandbox.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Google-owned VirusTotal starts analyzing Mac malware in a sandbox (http://www.macworld.com/article/3006306/security/google-owned-virustotal-starts-analyzing-mac-malware-in-a-sandbox.html#tk.rss_all) |