Not only vendors, but all of our customers as well. This is not about locking out the next-gen vendors itвЂ™s just a clear stipulation of the rules that have been in place for some time. The change now is simply to enforce this principle, which was always meant to guide behavior. So, only if your engine was there and only if you shared your samples and technology would you be eligible to receive samples as well. The gears worked thanks to the collaboration of antivirus companies and the support of an amazing community. In exchange, antivirus companies received new malware samples to improve protections for their users. вЂњ The initial idea was very basic: anyone could send a suspicious file and in return receive a report with multiple antivirus scanner results. When VT started, there was a give and take, by design, which is best explained on VirusTotalвЂ™s own website. But I will explain our position at Trend Micro. In this article, I will not presume to speak for all traditional anti-malware players. I share the views of my colleagues at a number of established security companies, who have long believed it is unfair that many startup companies simply grab information from VT-the combined intelligence of all contributing security players-but do not themselves contribute at all. It will come as no surprise that, as the CTO for Trend Micro, I welcome the decision from VirusTotal. By contrast, the traditional anti-malware companies, which have since VirusTotalвЂ™s inception generally provided their detection scanners to VirusTotal as part of their business model, will experience little disruption.

This change mostly affects companies representing the so-called next-gen anti-malware industry.

VTвЂ™s updated requirements state that 'all scanning companies will now be required to integrate their detection scanner in the public VT interface to be eligible to receive antivirus results as part of their VirusTotal API services.' It is also requiring new applicants to be certified by the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization ( AMTSO). On May 4, VirusTotal, the free, Google-owned service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs for virus and malware detection, announced a change in its rules of engagement for participating security companies.

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