From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:11:04 +1000, John Beckett
 wrote:

> As soon as VMs become commonly used to avoid
>malware, the malware authors will look for holes they can poke through to
>access  the guest system.

   It makes some interesting spy-VS-spy situations.  Currently, there is
some malware that does VM detection and won't activate, thinking it is
running in an AV vendor's research lab.

   Conversely, it makes it that much more desireable for the bad guys to
find a way to break outside the VM, knowing that it gets you into a high
value target.

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