VirusTotal += Arcabit

We welcome Arcabit scanner to VirusTotal. This is a multi-engine product from Poland. In the words of the company:

"Arcabit is a Polish vendor of the antivirus and protection software. Arcabit antivirus engine is the hybrid of two solutions - Bitdefender and its own, constantly developed 

engine with rapid response to the new threats. Arcabit uses advanced cloud solutions to identify trends in malware development and to ensure an early response to new threats.

The heuristic mechanisms implemented by Arcabit (identified as HEUR.*) offer the efficacy at the level of 99.9% in detecting threats spreading through popular Web channels - www, email etc."

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VirusTotal -= Norman

Blue Coat has decided to retire Norman Scanner Engine as an active OEMable AV scanner engine so it will not be shown in VirusTotal reports.

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VirusTotal += Alibaba

We welcome Alibaba engine to VirusTotal. This Chinese antivirus is focused in Android malware. In the words of the company:

"Alibaba anti-virus engine is an ultrafast and accurate anti-virus engine based on cloud computing, big data technologies and a database with massive confirmed malwares and safe files. This anti-virus engine consists of multiple subsystems such as preprocessing, static analysis, dynamic analysis, and counterfeit software detection. These subsystems collaboratively and automatically analyze an unknown software to determine whether it is a malware or not.

Specifically, our anti-virus engine focuses on detecting malwares that threatening the safety of mobile shopping or payment. We aim to protect the privacy information and assets of the clients of Alibaba, as well as maintain a secure mobile cyberspace."

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VirusTotal += ALYac

We welcome ESTsoft ALYac engine to VirusTotal. This South Korean multi-engine antivirus includes its own engine called Tera plus the popular BitDefender engine. In the words of the company:

"""ALYac provides differentiated service with the award winning Triple-Engines.

The ESTsoft's Tera Engine, the BitDefender Engine and the Sophos Engine establish several protection layers.

With the lightweighted engine and the memory optimization, ALYac minimizes its resource usage.

Moreover, ALYac boasts excellent detection power against variant malicious files through 'Smart Scan Technology'."""

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VirusTotal += Zillya

We welcome Zillya as a new file scanning engine at VirusTotal.

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VirusTotal += Qihoo-360

We welcome Qihoo-360 as a new engine working at VirusTotal. In the words of the company:

"QVM is Qihoo 360’s proprietary technology that detects malware through an artificial-intelligence algorithm capable of machine learning to recognize new forms of malware. QVM technology offers a robust model for recognizing malware characteristics using the massive amount of data that we have compiled on confirmed malware in our blacklist and verified safe programs files in our whitelist. This model is used as a basis for a detection algorithm which is automatically enhanced and updated with new malware samples submitted by our users to our servers.

Program files that do not appear in our blacklist and whitelist are scanned using QVM, and any ''hits'' returned by this technology are presumed to be malicious and removed or quarantined. As malware is constantly being created or morphing, QVM has the advantage of being able to detect threats that have not been previously identified. According to PC Security Labs, an independent security product test organization, QVM has a detection rate of 74.9% for unknown new malware, which surpasses most heuristic detection technologies."

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