In other words, a highly risky and rather dangerous way of showing people something you could fake just as effectively if you want to impress non-technical management. (If technical management, who can see through something like this, advocate testing a production system with live viruses, start looking for another job.)
Ok I understand your opinion (and you're right), it's not really about 'showing off', much more of (re-)assuring it works, and surely not trying it on a production system without making sure it's working in the same situation on our testbed.
In a way, just sending my testmailbox a 'known' virus (SCO.A,b, or whatsoever) to make sure our mailserver catches it, doesn't get 'slow' when scanning, and so on..
In a way it could also be used to do some stress testing (on a testsystem!) on how some hard-/software would handle a 'real-life' virus invasion.. (I'd love to test some 'low-end' hardware with different linux flavors/kernels to see what main difference in handling a big load would be)
Nothing compares to a real-life situation, the EICAR test is good for basic 'does-it-detects-viruses' but in my opinion doesn't reflect 'the world out there' :-)
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Best regards, Kristof
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