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malware travelled through virtual PC 2007

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:49 pm    Post subject: malware travelled through virtual PC 2007 Reply with quote

hi all,

just wanted to share my exp. with you guys...
I had created a sandbox virtual machine using MS virtual PC 2007.
I set it up with all the debugger and everything...
once I fired the worm...my antivirus(McAfee) caught it...
The best part was that I did not installed any AV in my sandbox.

infact it was my physical machine which had caught the virus...
And the file infected was virtualpc.exe in c:\program files\.....

My guess is that malware was loaded in memory inside virtual machine...
but physical memory is shared between virtual machine and physical machine...and hence my AV caught it...

But if this is so...and MS has not provided any locking mechanism between memory from virtual machine to physical machine...then it is not so safe to think that we can browse internet from virtual machine to protect real one...
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has been the case for a few years now that malware can escape a virtual OS.
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