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Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses
From: Axel Pettinger <api () worldonline de>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:00:40 +0200
Blue Boar wrote:
For one, I agree with Jericho (apologies if I'm putting words in his mouth) that generating a new virus is probably the best way to test a virus scanner that is expected to detect new viruses. I'm pretty sure I already know what the answer would be before I even tried, but if I were trying to test it, that would be how I would want to do it. If I were trying to see how quickly AV companies could write a signature for a new virus, there's one obvious way to do that.
Sorry, but in both cases it certainly isn't necessary to create new malware. Simply open your eyes, there're enough "new" malicious code files lying on the "street" of the Internet. Simply collect them and use them to test your favorite av scanners. Do that for a while then you'll know what you can expect from them. At least such samples are real malware samples found ITW ... Regards, Axel Pettinger _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blanchard_Michael (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses der Mouse (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Michal Zalewski (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Peter Kosinar (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blanchard_Michael (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Michal Zalewski (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Axel Pettinger (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 17)