Is my internship project dumb?

For context, I started my internship a week ago. My first assignment was to get a hash of EVERY SINGLE .exe and .dll in our network, hash them to sha256 and run them through virtual total. If any of these hashes come back as malicious, then we’ll start an investigation.

Well, after doing the math, there are over 20 million hashes and without a enterprise VT API key ($10K+), it will take over 1000 years for my script to match …

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