I deal with some pretty nasty malware on a daily basis and Ive been using SandBoxie to run them sanboxed but It doesn’t give you many options as far as seeing what entities the bug creats after install in and unsandboxed envirement? Can I turn malware loose in a Parallels Workstation virtual computer and watch what happens then shut it down and not infect my real computer like sandboxing?
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First of all a virtual machine is just a software running inside another machine pretending to be a machine on its own. It looks and feels like it is the actual machine with its own memory and harddrive etc..
In a practical sense you would maximize the window running the virtual machine running a full operating system (like windows)
you would use the virtual machine to download stuff and possibly run malware. The beauty is that if there is a problem, ie a virus or malware is spread, its is ONLY the virtual machine that is infected.. not the actual machine. It is then just a matter of shutting down the virtual machine software as simple as closing a window. Sandboxing is the correct term..http://freemoviesaddict.com
VMWare is generally considered pretty safe, although I don’t know about Parallels. Obviously the safest course of action is to run it within a VM on a dedicated, non-networked (or on an isolated and secure network) machine that gets wiped regularly.
just make sure you don’t share any folders or usb ports with the host computer and it should be totally safe. but if you have a home network and you allow it on to the internet it may try to infect the other pcs on the home network.
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