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VirusTotal Blog
Company blog · blog.virustotal.comsecurity
VirusTotal Blog is the company blog at blog.virustotal.com, writing about security. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this VirusTotal post on malware distribution and the trust placed in Windows code signing. One commenter cites it while asking which security products rely on that signing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
By “scanner” I meant the built-in windows defender tooling, which is - afair - affected. It trusts the signature. But you’re entirely correct - a virus scanner that does not rely on the signature w could catch the malicious code. However, this blog post mentions that various security solutions trust the windows code signing, but it does not mention which ones - https://blog.virustotal.com/2019/01/distribution-of-mal…
Comment linking /2019/01/distribution-of-malicious-jar-appended.html?m=1
on “Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years”Submitted Google Acquires VirusTotal as a story · 47 points
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HN discussionSubmitted VirusTotal and= Crowdsourced AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apology and Update on Recent Accidental Data Exposure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of the WASP's nest: deep dive into PyPI-hosted malware as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deception at Scale: How Malware Abuses Trust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distribution of malicious JAR appended to MSI files signed by third parties as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted VirusTotal += Mac OS X execution as a story · 1 points
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