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VirusTotal wants YOU (but not you) to join its epic AV whitelist

Kanhef

Possibly shortsighted

I don't know exactly how AV signatures are generated, but if there's any way to force collisions (like with md5), this could be a very bad idea. I'm sure plenty of people would love to have their malware whitelisted because it's identified as a core Windows component.

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