Virus

George Toft wrote:
>
> 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.

good suggestion... As a note, I purchased a license two years ago (of
VMWare) and had so may problems that I have chosen to sh*tcan the
thing. Supposidly, version 3.* has fixed most if not all of the
problems that I was having, but I'm not willing to spend another
$100-$200 for a license upgrade for a program that *might* work, and is
of only marginal use to me any way.

When I am done with my thesis I am planning to take another serious look
at UML. You might want to take a look at it too.

EBo --


> "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...