Every day we face lots of virus which tease and annoy innocent peoples around us. Have you ever thought to submit those viruses to anti virus companies, so that thy make their Signatures and updates!
Importance:-
Every one use some kind of anti virus which he/she trust most. there are lots of benefits of submitting a virus sample.
1)Save lot's of other user from damage
When a day , you submit a sample you save a person from damage, similarly some day he/she will submit a sample your computer get safe!
2)To discourage Malware composers:
When a malware composer writes a virus, he spend lot of time on it and if it's virus dont achieve it's goal and detected earlier it's quite annoying and discouraging for him and with the passage of time malware composers population will start reducing.
Following are some addresses of submitting samples. You can submit to those AV company that you use!
Submit Virus Sample to :
1)-Nod32 (This is also a online scanner)
samples.nod32.com.sg
2)-Symantec
https://submit.symantec.com/websubmit/retail.cgi
3)-Avira
http://analysis.avira.com/samples/
4)-Avast
http://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=199
5)-Kasper sky
http://support.kaspersky.com/virlab/helpdesk.html
6)-Mcafee
https://www.webimmune.net/default.aspz
Note: Create a free account, you will be able to upload files directly to Avert's automated systems for review. If the automated system is unable to determine a threat exists then the issue will be escalated to Avert Analysts.
7)-F-Secure
https://analysis.f-secure.com/portal/login.html
Hope this will help you!
If you have any problem and question please leave a comment!
