A new Malware Evasion Encyclopedia has been launched that offers insight into the various methods malware uses to detect if it is running under a virtual environment. To evade detection and analysis ...

To the VMware gurus:<BR><BR>Issue: Our new servers are VMs, but we're a bit disappointed by performance. We're not sure how to best assess if our machines are performing as well as can be expected.

One of the more effective ways to counter a malware infection is to make sure that it infects something that can’t have much of an influence on the rest of the system, like a sandboxed virtual machine ...

Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn’t the case anymore, according Symantec research. As companies ...