Most malware threats enter your PC from the Internet either when visiting infected websites or downloading infected programs. Everyone has a priority to keep their PC protected from malware and viruses. With simple mechanisms for updating all included engines’ virus signatures, Metascan also provided easy maintenance for Bit9 to update virus definitions and rescan their corpus. Antivirus has become an essential tool for every computer as malware and virus threats increase daily. Using Metascan’s simple APIs and thorough documentation, Bit9 was able to easily integrate Metascan with the SRS to analyze files. OPSWAT’s Solutionīit9 integrated the high-performance multi-scanning capabilities of OPSWAT’s Metascan (now MetaDefender) to their solution to scan incoming files with antivirus engines from leading vendors such as Symantec, McAfee, Kaspersky Lab, Trend Micro and Microsoft. Bit9 needed a solution that would give them the extra assurance of using multiple antivirus engines, but with easy integration and simple maintenance.

Creating and maintaining a multi-engine scanning solution in-house required considerable time adding new third party antivirus engines and maintaining engine updates involved difficult processes.

The SRS uses many elements to determine trust ratings (including a file’s source, publisher, prevalence, age, etc.) including the results of antivirus analysis from multiple scanners. A key element of the Bit9 solution is its cloud-based Software Reputation Service (SRS), which calculates trust ratings for the world’s software.

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