VirusTotal += AegisLab WebGuard

Our effort to pump up our URL scanner backbone continues, today we are excited to announce the integration of AegisLab WebGuard, a concise malicious URL database to prevent malicious URLs whose characteristics are described by its developers as:

Fast update and leave less open window for attack. Less false positive than other web filter DBs. Website hijacking prevention. Concise malicious URL database. Including: Drive-by-Downloads, BlackHat SEOFake Anti-Virus, Installer and Updates, Scarewares and etc.

You can read more about the kind of threats that AegisLab WebGuard intercepts in this blog post: http://blog.aegislab.com/?p=78

Welcome on board guys, thanks for joining VirusTotal!