[Shinkirou]

Oh I see so when doing this a virus cannot bypass the encryption?

Also is this a program or could anyone do this by simply a click of a button?

Basically, unless viruses have means of bypassing drive encryption (which to my knowledge they don't).

Yeah it is something anyone can do, one of the more popular programs to do it with is called "TrueCrypt" which allows you to encrypt drives or only create certain "directories" (a "non-physical" hard drive I guess you could say) that are encrypted (and all the contents of course) that you have to know the password to mount.

[Agent Shark]

Basically, unless viruses have means of bypassing drive encryption (which to my knowledge they don't).

Yeah it is something anyone can do, one of the more popular programs to do it with is called "TrueCrypt" which allows you to encrypt drives or only create certain "directories" (a "non-physical" hard drive I guess you could say) that are encrypted (and all the contents of course) that you have to know the password to mount.

Ah I understand it now. I seem to learn a bit more everyday. So would you assume drive encryption is better than a virtual machine.

I know there are huge differences in both but they seem to do the same: "Protect" the user.

[Shinkirou]

Ah I understand it now. I seem to learn a bit more everyday. So would you assume drive encryption is better than a virtual machine.

I know there are huge differences in both but they seem to do the same: "Protect" the user.

Actually the two working "hand in hand" so to speak would be really helpful. Say you were testing something in a VM, with an encrypted drive there would be no chance of you getting infected by anything that "leaked" out of the VM. Though highly unlikely, theres still a chance.

[Agent Shark]

Actually the two working "hand in hand" so to speak would be really helpful. Say you were testing something in a VM, with an encrypted drive there would be no chance of you getting infected by anything that "leaked" out of the VM. Though highly unlikely, theres still a chance.

So has anyone researched the likely hood of obtaining a virus from a Virtual Machine and what type of viruses can come out of it?

[flAmingw0rm]

These are steps used by HJT Team as well, but this wouldn't completely remove the trojan, because there are many trojans which bypass anti viruses and they are fully undetectable.

[Shinkirou]

So has anyone researched the likely hood of obtaining a virus from a Virtual Machine and what type of viruses can come out of it?

Not to my knowledge, I haven't done much research on that myself.
I would think it's really unlikely that a virus could leak from a VM, if it's even possible.

I did find this thread on Kaspersky's forum, which says that it is possible due to bugs in the coding of the program (ex: VMWare) but I would assume a major flaw like that would be patched really quickly.

(Going to sleep now, if you have any questions or anything you can PM them to me, and I'll answer/reply when I wake up.)

[Agent Shark]

I see that most people tend to "freak out" when a virus gets on there Virtual Machine.
If you wanted to mess with the file you could I assume dissemble it and analyze the files inside of it.
Also you could just simply remove the hard disk from the computer and then your set.

Am I correct?

[Shinkirou]

I see that most people tend to "freak out" when a virus gets on there Virtual Machine.
If you wanted to mess with the file you could I assume dissemble it and analyze the files inside of it.
Also you could just simply remove the hard disk from the computer and then your set.

Am I correct?

Assuming your talking about the VM HD, then yeah, you can just delete the VM and you should be fine.

[Herakleitos]

I need help for remove cybergate rat :( infected today hacked all from me computer :(

[Agent Shark]

I need help for remove cybergate rat :( infected today hacked all from me computer :(

Can you please rephrase what you said?
Also look at the beginning of my thread and also look in the HJT Area.

Regards,
Disruption

[Agent Shark]

I see alot of views but not a lot of comments :(

[$ zS $]

What would really be amazing if that you made this into an AIO program!

[Shinkirou]

Malware Bytes Anti Malware, SAS and ESET Online Scanner are all copyrighted, which means that putting them all into a program would most likely cause numerous copyright violations and potentially a lawsuit or a fine.

[Crxnkz]

Nice guide, keep up the good work and the high quality posts

[Langleyyy]

Great post OP. I used this in the past to get some kids bot off my shit. Thanks!