from thelatest ISC diary...

Many readers might be familiar with Virustotal (http://www.virustotal.com ). This service provides its users the ability to submit a file and have several anti-virus engines scan it. Unfortunately, several major anti-virus vendors decided this was not a good use of their product (probably because it exposes which vendors are lagging on getting updates out) and have badgered Virustotal to remove their engines. Apparently too many customers would come back to AV vendors using Virustotal results to harass them about lagging signatures.



I'm sorry. Who the hell do these vendors think they are? This guy is providing one of the best services I have seen in a long time. Quick submittal and scan time, and you get to see who is catching what viruses. I guess the vendors couldn't handle someone pointing out that they suck.
As of this morning the site is still up..but we'll see what happens.