Re: Virus Acquisition

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The image part I know, the other part is where to locate said viruses not by
mistake.

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This may seem like a strange request but it is valid. I am teaching
students to remove viruses and want to be able to consistantly infect a
test computer with the same viruses each time to teach and monitor proper
virus removal. How would one go about willing infecting their own system
for educational purposes. In this way the results can actually be tested
for each student.

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Create an uninfected image of the computer for restoring to the uninfected
state.

Find whatever virus or other malware you want to infect the computer with.
Store the infected file or web link on a thumb drive or CD. When needed
for the infection simply run the trigger for the virus or other malware.

Been doing this in classroom settings for many years (at least since 1995)
to show how well different malware cleaning programs work on different
virus or other malware. Up until recently I had 6 different images with
different protection programs (Norton, McAfee, AVG, AVAST, Nod32, Trend
Micro) installed and one image without any. Worked well. Only issue I
had was keeping the programs up to date with their latest malware updates
so I did the updates once a week and had the programs set to not update
automatically (to prevent interruption when started in class.) Could
restore from a USB drive quickly (about 5 minutes) because of the size of
the image.


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