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/ > >********************************************************* >How difficult would it be to modify the MD5 value to a benign value... camouflage so to speak. > >-Craig > > > >* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * >* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *