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AVPL is a self contained tool that will let you practice virus attacks and recover from them, in a realistic yet safe environment. AVPL is the perfect tool for hands-on training for system administrators, security experts and power users with an interest in the field.
AVPL is designed to be used with InVircible. However, it can also be used to evaluate antivirus products in general.
AVPL is a significant contribution to the tools available to end-users who have previously been unable to evaluate the key features of an antivirus package.
In order for computer user’s to appreciate the significant effectiveness of a generic, rule-based, expert system’s approach, it is necessary for them to become familiar with how viruses operate in a computer. A major purpose of AVPL is to provide computer users with a near-real virus environment so that they may increase their familiarity with the types of actions that viruses perform.
AVPL allows an individual to “infect” selected computer programs in a virus like way, to install master boot sector (MBR) infectors to the hard disk, and to use the AV product of their choice to identify the simulated viruses and recover from them.
How “safe” is the AV Practice Lab?
Several points need to be emphasized. First, the “infections” produced by AVPL are ultimately harmless. The scenarios created by AVPL will not replicate. They can not spread through a process of spontaneous replication to other programs or disks. They will only affect the program files in a target directory selected by the user and the hard drive of the system on which AVPL is installed. Therefore, the user can be assured that only those programs and the hard disk of their system can be practiced upon with AVPL. AVPL will ONLY affect program files and the hard drive chosen by the user.
Programs that are affected by AVPL can be “cleaned” either through the use of the Uninstall option of AVPL, or through the DOS delete command.
MBR infections that were installed by AVPL can be removed as well by AVPL’s Uninstall option, or through the use of the InVircible ResQ diskette.
Note: It’s highly recommended to download, install InVircible (http://invircible.com/iv_download.php) and prepare its ResQ diskette before starting to practice with AVPL.
Last modified: Jan 31 2003
Download the Anti-Virus Practice Lab - AVPL here: http://invircible.co.il/download/avpl.exe