Using a VM to open suspicious files...

dan7777

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Say I wanted to open a suspicious file, or something that could possibly contain a virus, or spyware or whatever,
should I use a virtual machine and open the file from in there?

Would this stop any threats making their way into my os?

Thanks for any help!
 
Check the file by with your Anti Virus program, right click over the file then when the menu comes up look for you AV and there should be the word scan there , select that and it will scan the file for you.
 
yer just right click , search for viruses ,
i allways do this when i download cracks and keygens. ive found 2 files that had viruses in them so i just deleate
 
Are you sure that will be enough? What if the virus scanner doesn't detect if it has spyware, trogens, viruses etc.
 
Unless you have outdated virus and spyware definitions it should be fine. Your virus/spyware scanner will open up the particular file and scan the entire contents and report whether or not it's safe.
 
Yeah, basically I want to run some keygens. I'm not sure if they could be malicious though...
 
Yeah, basically I want to run some keygens. I'm not sure if they could be malicious though...
From what I understand about VM's, is that it is almost impossible for any virus to jump from a VM OS to your HOST OS.

With a VM, you can also run it, check if it is a virus/works as intended. If not, just end the process to VM and it should go back to the way it was prior to the virus being introduced to the system.
 
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