Virus

If you're really bent on doing this, try vmware. Everything is virtual,
including BIOS, motherboard and hard drive. You can get a 30 day trial
download fom vmware.com.

George



"John (EBo) David" wrote:
>
> Gary Nichols wrote:
> >
> > Unless you're into virus research, I wouldn't. You'll have to download
> > the tool from norton and 'clean' the box afterwards.
> >
> > FYI: This is the exact setup I use for windows virus analysis. Yes, it
> > works.
>
> Couldn't you set up a different wine partition which does not know about
> the other dos partitions, as a "throw away?"
>
> Personally I would not do it as some of the really nasty viruses will
> change settings in the flash or nonvolatile RAM and muck with the
> hardware...
>
> EBo --
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