On 28.02.2016 14:26, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote:

I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to share their signature 
databases with>anybody.
It's industry practice that a third-party vendor, e.g. Symantec, discovers a 
new virus, it has to share it with other vendors such as Eset, Kapersky, 
McAfee...
I don't think that this is true, because of the fact, that in virustotal there is always the chance, that only a few or many but not every
Antivirus (53 or 54 different solutions) shows malware as bad ...
Why would a user invest in a commercial A-V software package if they could get the 
same scanning>protection for free?
I disagree. Scan engines differ by vendor. Annually at ZDnet there's a rundown 
of which antivirus and malware software offers the best protection such as the 
ability to detect and clean the most number of viruses, trojans and malware, 
the fastest scan, etc.
right; Anti-Virus Solution don't differ in just the signatures database ...

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