Virus Scanners for Virus Authors
Summary: Krebs on Security describes file-scanning services like av-check.com and virtest.com that, for $1 per file or a $40 monthly membership, test malware against 22 commercial anti-virus products while promising not to share results with the anti-virus vendors. The services accept only virtual currencies such as Webmoney and Fethard, and virtest.com openly offers malware authors an "exploit pack check" to see whether their malicious sites trigger alerts across widely used anti-virus software.
What you should know: A $40 monthly subscription buys a malware author a private test lab against 22 anti-virus engines, so detection that depends on the vendors learning about new samples can be quietly defeated before a single victim sees the file.
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