Submitted by Savvy Aggarwal on September 9, 2012 - 12:18pm
In a bid to beef up the security of its numerous online services, web giant Google has acquired VirusTotal, a cybersecurity startup. Though the numbers involved in the deal have yet not been disclosed by either party but the deal clearly comes across as a promising step for Google ,which has long been struggling to impose its irrefutable dominance, and the fledgling VirusTotal which will clearly gain from its association with Google's expertise and reputation.
VirusTotal provides cloud based virus scanning service to its users who can either upload files or input the URL of a website to the VirusTotal website to scan for viruses including malware, spyware a