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If you are trying to purposefully infect a computer, download Windows XP (no service patches) and using IE 6/7 browse various sites of questionable content. Then install LimeWire. Search for songs or music. Download as many as you can. Sort them out as real music files and .exe files pretending to be music files (often hidden in archives). Now ...
The EICAR test file (official name: EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File) is a file, developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs.
When you download something in chrome, it automatically runs an antivirus check on the file. If it detects it as dangerous, it puts a warning and a discard button in the downloads bar at the bottom. If you click the arrow you can chose Keep. I want to disable this on my computer, as my computer's antivirus will pick it up anyway. How do I do this?
The main reason a virus could propagate from VM to host Operating System is via the network. Once you start using bridged networking between the host and guest things get more risky. Your machine and the VM are seen as 2 nodes on the same subnet. A worm which sees these 2 nodes has the possibility of propagation if such a vulnerability is found.
If the "Virus" is downloaded in a folder that is shared with the host, only then it can spread to the host machine. If the virtual machine is installed on a physical disk, the risk of the virus affecting the host system's files is much greater. If so, can any Anti-Virus like Quick Heal detect and delete the virus from both the type of computers.
The EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File or EICAR test file is a computer file that was developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) and Computer Antivirus Research Organization (CARO), to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs. Instead of using real malware, which could do real damage, this test ...
0. No, Virii can't interfere with the host in a VirtualBox VM because it emulates everything, so from the Viruses point of view the VM is its world. Of-course, there are exceptions - if the Virus has the ability to propogate itself, it could attempt to propogate itself and have better access to your LAN then it otherwise would (ie it might be ...
1. Before reinstalling, I'd try one or more of the free spyware removal programs. I'm particularly fond of Spybot Search and Destroy which is a very well known and highly regarded free adware/spyware removal program. I've also had good luck with the free version of Lavasoft Ad-Aware in the past. It's important to stick with adware/spyware ...
However, I was under the impression that the download itself, i.e., the sole act of a file being copied from the network to disk itself, does not cause any problems as long as the machine-level instructions of the malware program are not executed (and I was under the impression that the only way to do this is by actually telling the OS to run ...