RE: Extracting signature snippets from AV databases

Bill Stout wrote:

> For internal testing we run publicly sourced live viruses and other
> malware in an isolated locked room, where the only media that comes out
> is shredded.
>
> What I'm trying to figure out is how to 'smoke test' new builds, and to
> ethically and fully demonstrate (to the CEO, to outsiders) that the
> protection works.  We're in alpha test, and beta is approaching fast.

VMWare on a beefy laptop with no writable media drives and its 
ethernet, USB, FireWire, etc ports bunged up to ensure there were no 
accidents??

You'd want a machine with a removable drive bay so you could insert 
floppy/optical drives for reconfiguration, etc in the lab, or a machine 
with easily removable HDD that you could drop into a suitable chassis 
and connect to another machine in the lab as a slave drive...

That should give you a relatively safe, isolated multi-machine network 
with the carry-around convenience of a laptop.  You can then use _real_ 
samples so there should be no question that you may be faking something 
with your "demonstration malware".


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald