If you believe you may have a new virus, upload a sample to www.virustotal.com to see if any vendors are detecting it as malware.
If doesn't have any vendors detecting a file as malware, but you are suspicious of it, then send the file in a password protected zip file us at anti-malware@uis.cam.ac.uk. Well send it to McAfee for analysis.
When sending a virus sample you should include as much of the following information as possible:
- What symptoms cause you to think you have a virus
- Whether any products find the virus
- Any relevant system details (including number of affected systems)
- Contact details
- A list of the contents of the zip file you have submitted.
You should attach any files to the email in a password protected zip file (select encrypt file to password protect on latest version of Winzip, the password should be "infected" (no speechmarks, all lower-case).
Additional information and tools can be found at McAfee's website.
If you are having problems submitting your sample, contact us: anti-malware@uis.cam.ac.uk.