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Guess what? A new site, Downloadmalware com, offers free mal

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 18, 2008 2:54PM PDT

Guess what? A new site, Downloadmalware com, offers free malware.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

A sick joke

No. Really. What you get is a Vondu/Virtumonde trojan.

There?s full-disclosure on the site:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/index.html

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(NT) Now that is sick.

by zeebell Oct 18, 2008 11:06PM PDT

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downloadmalware.com reverses

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 19, 2008 3:08PM PDT

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The siteowner of downloadmalware.com read the blog, made a comment and promises to no longer offer the malware download.

The site appears to be suspended right now anyway.

Anyway, to the owner, thank you for listening to the security community and removing this download.

Incidentally, this is not the first time a similar crank has been tried. Didier Stevens did it, but it was strictly as a research experiment, and no malware was ever delivered.

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/index.html

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