Yes, I had an aquaintance of mine who kept a 3.5" disk with all of the
viruses he had encoutnered.  He called it his Petri Dish.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:14:48 -0700, Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>And yes, to argue the point from a security perspective, there is an
>organization now (not sure if public or still NDA) that keeps an MD5
>registry of all known "malware" - viruses, trojans, botnets,rootkits,
>etc.  We're not "all that far" from a reputation score of an
>attachment.  The debate here then becomes be what sort of reputation
>we're scoring, rather than the scoring itself (or at least the reference
>database).
>
>Compiling similar libraries isn't new, NIST has been doing it (NSRL) for
>years.  http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/
>
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>How difficult would it be to modify the MD5 value to a benign value... 
camouflage so to speak.
>
>-Craig
>
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