Desperately Seeking Virii...
 

Hi there :)

As the title says, I need viruses, and/or tips on how to find them.

I'm testing some AV programs, and I want to challenge them a bit.
(yes i'm doing this all on a virtual machine, don't worry).

My test OS is XP Pro SP2.

I've made a hotmail account for testing, and am using that with OE.
I am also trying to get OE set up for newsgroups.

Last night I did some 'stupid surfing' and managed to get a crapload of adware, but only a couple viruses, dialers and such for my AV. :(

So, anyone have any tips/tricks/suggestions? Show me the dark corners of the inet where the virii lurk! :p

Post here, or send me a PM if you wish.

Thanks! :)

Sign up for various offers for sketchy websites. They will sell your email address and you will get sketchy emails. I have gotten a couple virus emails from my junk Yahoo! account.

http://securityfocus.com/archive/1 - Bugtraq, all kinds of stuff gets posted here, this is a great site to monitor if you have an interest in information security. Be careful though, I have seen code posted that was not what it was advertised as. Also check out vuln-dev and focus-virus for malicious code samples.

Found this on BT yesterday, this involves the GDI/jpeg issue that is currently circulating, we'll probably be seeing a mass mailer virus involving this exploit any day now:
http://www.easynews.com/virus.html

Then there's always the ubiquitous IRC, be careful there too :)

I have temporarily turned off the virus deletion from my mail gateway. After I collect a few I'll let you know and can then forward them to you.

I would tell you to look for the Eicar test virus.

find it here http://www.testvirus.org/
or http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

Any antivirus program should pick these up.

Ha, i'll send you a few of mine!
J/K

Hit up shifty warez/crack websites - www.crack.ru, if memory serves, is one such.

Most of the downloads have some sort of virus - unless the scene has dramatically cleaned itself up in the past several years.

Yeah, warez sites are a good bet. Just go and download as much as possible. Porn sites are good too.

Download exe files from Kazaa. That's a good way to get worms and irc trojans.