VirusTotal open sources uploader for Mac OSX and Linux

Recently we released the VirusTotal uploader for OS X. It now supports Linux, and we are releasing it as open-source under the Apache License 2.0 terms so 3rd parties can package it for different linux distributions. You can git the source at: http://github.com/VirusTotal/qt-virustotal-uploader

Systems administrators, engineers and security analysts often use GNU/Linux, Mac OS, or BSD. The VirusTotal uploader can be compiled and distributed on these systems. This will give users the 2nd opinion that that VirusTotal can offer and should make queueing scans on VirusTotal easier.

The requirements to compile on linux are:

• C++ compiler (gcc tested)
• QT Version 5 or newer development packages. Most linux distributions have this already.
• C Interface to VirusTotal API which we recently open-sourced.

To compile on Mac OS X, you will need xcode development tools.

The Features of the program are the same:

• Drag and drop a file to the VirusTotal Uploader in order to scan it with over 50 antivirus solutions.
• Drag and drop a folder to the VirusTotal Uploader and schedule the analysis of its content
• Allow you to "Open With" in a file browser to scan a file.

If anyone wishes to send patches, please do a pull request to us on github. Comments and suggestions are welcome. 

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VirusTotal API implementation in C programming language

Many users interact programmatically with VirusTotal via its public API, it is an easy HTTP+JSON interface that allows you to easily submit and check files in order to help improve security world-wide. Moreover, many VirusTotal Community volunteers have very kindly implemented the API in a wide variety of programming languages, some of these implementations are documented here, many others exist and we will progressively adding all those that we are made aware of.

This said, there was not any full implementation of the API in the C language, so that any C or C++ program that users might be building could easily interact with VirusTotal, at least we were not aware of any. We have released a VirusTotal interface written in C to our API  on github at https://github.com/VirusTotal/c-vtapi, any C or C++ program should be able to use it. Its goal is to implement all of the public API and private API features in C. The public API features will work for anyone with a free public API key, the private API features will only work for those who have licensed our services and use a private API key.

The recently announced VirusTotal Uploader for OS X internally uses the c-vtapi project. Using C it is a common building block that other programs or languages can interface to.

Suggestions, comments, patches and github pull request for improvements are welcome. Some ideas of improvements:

• Better windows support and testing. We have tested a lot with OS X and linux, the windows scaffolding is there, but is not well tested.
• More example programs or command line utilities that use this C API interface. For example, we know Sebastian Poeplau, being a busy guy, was looking for collaborators that would implement VirusTotal submissions in his awesome Ghost USB project, perhaps this C implementation makes it easier to perform the integration and some volunteers stand up.

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