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Old August 30th 10, 01:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
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Default Worm for Testing Purposes?

"Twayne" wrote in message
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dubya,

The EICAR group came up with a harmless file detected by
antivirus products so you can safely verify the product's
working. If you haven't seen Windows Defender detect
something, visit
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm , download
the 68 byte file eicar.com.txt, and copy it to your startup
folder. Your AV solution (that you should be running in
addition to Windows Defender) will also pick it up." -=-

"dubya" wrote:

Hello\,

Does anyone know of a non-destructive, safe worm - one
that doesn't do anything but propagate and is easy to
remove - that I can use for testing in small networks?

Thanks!

Mike


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Good response: Eicar is completely safe and won't cause any harm. It's
old but it at least shows that the signature it uses gets caught by
security-ware.


It is not a worm, so how is that relevent to his query.

I am suspecting that the OP wants a *worm* (without a payload) to run
rampant on his network so that he can study worm behavior.

This is entirely unsafe - better would be to put restrictions on the
worm (such as requiring some registry value only found in the test
network's computers or requiring users' permission before replicating)
which violates the *other* request that the worm *only* propagte - and
do nothing else.

An impossibility.


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