I want to install a virus on my computer... how? I'm doing some testing in VMWare Player and part of it is to install a Windows virus on XP.
What's the fastest way to do this?
2007-02-24 16:01:28 · 12 answers · asked by Andrew 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
As long as you are inside of VMware player, which most people who answered you have no idea about, you are safe. There is currenly no know viruses which will escape outside of the Virtual machine. There are known test viruses, for example:
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
These test file will not do any damage to your system, they are simple strings which should be detected by any valid anti virus program.
If you want to test the ability to remove real viruses I recommend searching on http://www.seriall.com/ and running any exectuable on that site. They are known bad infectious programs. If done correctly you should see a new program installled, last time I check it was "free soduku" or similar.
2007-02-24 16:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Bradford K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you do, DO NOT download anything others are recommending!!! I don't want to offend everyone, but real viruses are a REAL pain in the neck. Malware can do much harm before you, your computer or your AV program can do anything about it. If you want to test your AV program, go to
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
and download their 4 test virus files. They aren't real viruses (they won't do anything, just display a command prompt with 1 line of characters), but they're recognized by the AV community as malware, so it should be detected as a virus.
2007-02-25 00:18:14 · answer #2 · answered by hungry4mercy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Nathan.. I'm part of the Rohitab community and am quite experienced.
Please be warned the people on there are extremely intelligent and wont make crap viruses!
Look around on the site, you'll find ways of making them and examples of their effects.
Else you can go to http://mytermex.com/ (turn off your AV) and let it burn!
Although I must advise you that I don't really think it's necessary that you need to do this to use VMWare... VMWare simulates your computer on programs which is why it's good on viruses, I doubt you need to run one on your actual machine.
Dys.
2007-02-25 00:30:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sites for cracks, serials, keygens etc...are chock full of trojan horses. Or start downloading software apps or games off limewire. That'll do ya!
2007-02-25 00:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by clone17 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are being very risky. Make sure you have a backup of everything first incase your computer isnt protected
2007-02-25 00:16:22 · answer #5 · answered by answers 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try some of the links on this site
http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/index.php?showtopic=17956
2007-02-25 00:09:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to weird websites. And download a bunch of crap.
2007-02-25 00:09:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're insane! but download games, and open up bulk email...they always contain viruses
2007-02-25 00:10:40 · answer #8 · answered by lilprincess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why would you want a virus on your computer it will screw it up
2007-02-25 01:19:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Download games, porn etc. They'll get you.
2007-02-25 00:05:51 · answer #10 · answered by redman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋