Are there any sites where you can test how effective your virus scanner is by dowloading fake virus programs?
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I'm not sure you understand how a virus scanner works. A virus is either in the scanner's definitions or it's not, so the only way to test it is with a virus that's not in the definitions, in which case, the scanner would obviously fail. The only way I can think of actually testing them would be to load up on virii and see how comprehensive the definitions are, or measure the amount of time between the introduction of a new virus and it's appearance on updated definitions.
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Not sure if this will really answer your question, but there are online scanners such as this which, I suppose, you could use to double check your own AV's thoroughness.
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I understand the heuristics part of the AV program, but you still can't make a benchmarking system in the traditional sense. All the companies have to do is include those virii into a definitions update, and that would guarantee a 100% pass.
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See www.av-comparatives.org ... they have data on the different AV packages and how many viruses are caught by the resident scanner and by on-demand scans.
As far as doing your own tests... you could download a virus file and just not run it and see if the AV program flags it. That's all I can really think of. -
what about running the virus in a virtual machine? I dont know that much about virtualisation though!
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Many AVs use both systems.
testing effectiveness of your virus resident scanner!!
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by i5evoSwift3814, Mar 22, 2008.