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something like this?<br />
<a href="http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm</a>&nbsp;<br />

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something like this?
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm [http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm] 


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I've played with EICAR files a little bit already and have yet to find an app that doesn't detect and instantly delete them... I was looking for something a little more versatile / harder to detect.<br />

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I've played with EICAR files a little bit already and have yet to find an app that doesn't detect and instantly delete them... I was looking for something a little more versatile / harder to detect.


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That's closer to what I was looking for--may actually work better.<br />
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Thanks, jahboite!<br />

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That's closer to what I was looking for--may actually work better.

Thanks, jahboite!


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They would have got it through their honeypots (exposed out in the wild) - in specific can explore Honeyd and HoneyC @ <a href="https://www.honeynet.org/project" rel="ugc">https://www.honeynet.org/project</a><br />
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Another link to check out is milw0rm (but I believe it is not maintained already, latest at 2009)<br />
@ <a href="http://www.milw0rm.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.milw0rm.com/</a>
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They would have got it through their honeypots (exposed out in the wild) - in specific can explore Honeyd and HoneyC @ https://www.honeynet.org/project [https://www.honeynet.org/project]

Another link to check out is milw0rm (but I believe it is not maintained already, latest at 2009)
@ http://www.milw0rm.com/ [http://www.milw0rm.com/]

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I would like to conduct some of my own testing on a couple of Antivirus solutions for our company. I have seen security presentations where the engineers had folders full of &quot;defanged&quot; threats to use to test the ability of different antivirus solutions, but I have not been able to find any of these files to download myself. Does anyone know where I could acquire these?
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I would like to conduct some of my own testing on a couple of Antivirus solutions for our company. I have seen security presentations where the engineers had folders full of "defanged" threats to use to test the ability of different antivirus solutions, but I have not been able to find any of these files to download myself. Does anyone know where I could acquire these?

Where can I acquire defanged threats to use in an Antivirus Testing lab?

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

A vulnerability is a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's information assurance. Vulnerability is the intersection of three elements: a system susceptibility or flaw, attacker access to the flaw, and attacker capability to exploit the flaw. To exploit a vulnerability, an attacker must have at least one applicable tool or technique that can connect to a system weakness, known as the attack surface. Vulnerability management is the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities. Other vulnerabilities include security risks, security defects and constructs in programming languages that are difficult to use properly.