Re: Virus Acquisition

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

Interesting concept. I've never heard of any such repository though.
Even if I did I wouldn't put it here for obvious reasons.
IMO, if you are going to teach about troubleshooting them, you should
know about the mechanisms anyway, so I'd advise learning some of the ins
and outs of viruses and start creating your own mini-viruses. It makes
no sense to me to be throwing something at a bunch of neophytes that
may/likely will trash so many multiple areas it'd be hard to even know
where to start. In some cases it's not just a case of cleaning; you also
have to replace the system files it borked.
Actually, even without knowing anything about viruses, it would be
easy to bork any one thing in the OS to send them after. YOu could get
lists of what to bork by looking at virus AV maker's manual removal
solutions.

HTH,

Twayne





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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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