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Sophos powers Gmail Anti-virus

TheBillyGoatCurse posted a study on how he found out what anti-virus company was behind GMail’s new feature.

A public service by VirusTotal.com allows you to submit malware, and get results back from many AV vendors. The AV signature database between vendors is as unique as a fingerprint, so I decided to fingerprint the AV vendor! Using malware collected from my secret source of malware, and GHH honeypots, I started to compare Gmail with all of the AV vendors.

A sample chart can be found here and here and if you look closely you will see that both GMail AV and Sophos detected the same exact malwares. No other AV company had the same fingerprint.

I used to run Kaspersky which is a Russian-based AV company and it was good, only that it’s too resource-intensive though the charts would show you they detected the most number of malwares. So I switched to Avast and it’s been working just fine for me.

Abe Olandres
Abe Olandres
Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.
  1. filme gratis says:

    Couldn?t be created any far better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this report to him. Pretty certain he will possess a good read. Thanks for sharing!

  2. wedjarl says:

    O’C’mon Google, why Sophos? I have “bad memories” with Sophos. Kaspersky or Trendmicro will be fine, but with Sophos…Gmail doesnt give that “hey my mails are virus free” impression. Yahoomail does.

  3. Sarah says:

    Hahhaha!! That kind of stuff doens’t interest me.. kasi first off.. i don’t know what MALWARE means.. And I guess I’m not that techie (as I like to think) Hahahha!!!

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