From: "Robert Comer" 

>   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.

That's not going to be easy to do, the isolation is pretty close to
physical hardware level. (At least with the Microsoft products, not sure
about VMWare with it's shared RAM and RAM overcommit schemes.

--
Bob Comer





"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> 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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