I’m looking to run a little Virus Fight Club, but I want to expand the test set and use exclusively UTM firewalls for my test. I’m looking for two things, people that can provide malware samples and people that can run tests on various firewalls for me.

Currently I have the following UTMs covered:

• Astaro
• Calyptix
• Endian
• Fortigate
• Sonicwall
• Untangle (Open Source)

I would like to add at least the following:

• Barracuda Web Filter
• Checkpoint
• Cisco ASA Series
• eSoft
• GTA
• Juniper
• mxLogic Web Filtering
• Postini Web Filtering
• Smoothwall Commerical
• Untangle (with Kaspersky Add-on)
• Watchguard

If any of the above vendors would like to participate directly, I’d be happy to give bonus points for including yourself in the test. Even if you don’t send a firewall for testing, if you’d be willing to run the script against your system I’d be very much appreciated. This is highly unscientific, but will be completely open for review after the fact.

My goal is to be able to present 250 malware samples to each firewall, and rate their overall effectiveness. All samples will be available along with Virustotal results for the file upon completion. Please send all malware files to scott.cover{at}gmail.com in password protected zip or 7z files. Any offers to support the actual test, please post in the comments, and we’ll work out arrangements to get you information for the actual testing.

If anyone that reads this can pass it down the line I’d be much appreciated.