The topic title might end up as a new Masters Degree level one day and we just might be your instructors so read carefully and take note of our warnings.
WARNING: If you follow the instructions and damage or trash your computer it is your fault not ours. We are only showing how to capture and setup to capture viruses so you as a technician can learn to remove them without formatting every hard drive you see.
1. Setup a computer that will be used to collect viruses. This computer should be your Sacrificial computer in that when you are infected you can wipe it clean after you dissect the virus and start on your next. 2. Dual Boot with 2 hard drives is recommended. We run a dual boot with Windows 2000 Server Totally unpatched, No AV, No Firewall and a full version of XP Patched and Protected.
You will use your unprotected OS to collect the viruses and once you have your computer infected with at least one virus you can boot into your protected OS and scan for things.
NOTE: We assume you know your OS inside and out and do not need screen shots of every Good File.
You can run your AV on the unpatched system as long as you set it to only warn about viruses and not delete or heal them.
The key to our class is to allow the virus to run so you can see what the computer users see. We also need for it to install completely so we can pick it apart (Dissect) for our discussion.
Now go and setup your sacrificial computer and continue on with our next step.
NOTE: When you find a downloadable virus please do not post the URL completely as an active link. Place Spaces so to break the link up so the inexperienced do not accidentally download the virus you found. ALSO PLACE THE WORD WARNING BEFORE THE URL AND AT THE END.
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How to Capture your Computer Viruses
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Posted - 09/11/2009 : 12:05:15 PM
