RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 You use the existing viruses that are out there.  In order to be a variant,
there has to be some similarities that you can produce your pattern sig for.

  I'll repeat, never, EVER is it warrented to create new viruses for any
reason, period.


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:20 PM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: dudevanwinkle () gmail com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:06:25 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said:
>  
> None of their new viruses got out AFAIK, but it happens under the most
> controlled circumstances.  In my eyes there is never a need to create new
> viruses for testing purposes...

So you're an A/V package author/developer.  How do you test your software's
ability to deal with variant versions of stuff before you put out a pattern
for it?

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