Volunteer Opportunities To Help In The Fight Against Malware?

[Richard]

Hi All,

Bob, Tom and Andre, thanks for your replies.  Thanks for the information.

I clicked the honeynet link.  It looks like an international organization, with little presence in the U.S., and no presence in the Metro-Washington D.C. area, or any where near this area.  

Wombat looks interesting.  I will look at it closer.  

One would think, if the colleges, computer clubs, and even high schools were involved in identifying and deconstructing new viruses, this would put a dent in malware infestation on the Internet.

Best Wishes
73s 
Richard Demaret
KI4KXJ


--- On Sun, 7/31/11, Robert Stratton <bob at stratton.net> wrote:

From: Robert Stratton <bob at stratton.net>
Subject: Re: Volunteer Opportunities To Help In The Fight Against Malware?
To: "Richard" <revo753 at yahoo.com>
Cc: tacos at amrad.org
Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011, 12:06 PM

There are some things that help even if you're using the resources to help yourself or out of curiosity. 

Virustotal is a site that takes submissions of suspicious files,  runs them against about 40 of the most popular anti-virus tools, and then sends you a report of what was detected. If it finds something new, they send samples to the AV companies for analysis to improve the products. 

http://www.virustotal.com/


As you mentioned, the Honeynet project is a collaborative effort to set up a network of honeypot systems to detect and analyse new attack methods and malware. 

http://www.honeynet.org/


One very large research project is WOMBAT. This is a multi-pronged automated analysis system with modules that do a variety of different analyses, contributing to a shared corpus and data feed of attack/malware information. The "price" of gaining access to the data feed is setting up a node. 

http://wombat-project.eu/wombat-project-description.html


Some of this work is conducted by larger research labs, but there are more than a few independent researchers participating in all of them. 

--Bob S.



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> Hello Everyone,
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> I am wondering: Are there volunteer opportunities to help fight
> malware (viruses, trojans, etc.)?
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> Somewhere I read of organizations, which worked to trap malware in
> "honeypot computers", and then analyzed them to help find ways to
> defend against them. Is anyone familiar with this or any other
> efforts by volunteer organizations to help in the fight against
> malware?
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> Perhaps, there are volunteer organizations, which work with
> established anti-malware corporations and or government agencies to
> help fight against malware.
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> Perhaps, some of us could help in the effort to rid the Internet of
> malware, and make the Internet safe to use.
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> Best Wishes
> 73s
> Richard Demaret
> KI4KXJ
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