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MrBrian
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« on: April 17, 2008, 04:31:21 PM »
How about a product called Comodo Virtual Machine Faker?  A nontrivial portion of today's malware behaves like a good citizen in the presence of a virtual machine or emulated environment.  So how about a product that makes a physical machine appear to be one of the popular virtual or emulated environments?  Malware that behaves like a good citizen in a virtual machine would also behave like a good citizen on your physical machine if you're using Comodo Virtual Machine Faker!
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2008, 05:09:12 PM »
This may not work to well, some programs (I'm not sure how many) will not run within a VM for DRM reasons.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2008, 05:40:15 AM »
Well how would you run those programs if you were using Hyper-V?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2008, 05:58:51 AM »
Programs that are made to run in that sort of environment won't be detecting that it is indeed running within the environment it's meant to be.  A LOT of *user* programs will not run in a VMWare and/or Virtual PC session.
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2008, 08:54:32 PM »
i can't see how you could wrap a real installation to look virtual, and as far as I know, Malware infects it just the same.
Quote from: Rotty on May 06, 2008, 05:58:51 AM
A LOT of *user* programs will not run in a VMWare and/or Virtual PC session.
How do you mean Rotty? Like what?
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