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Alternative title: Amateur virus analyst does not take necessary precautions, gets pwned by virus author.
by strictfp 14y ago
Alternative title: Amateur virus analyst does not take necessary precautions, gets pwned by virus author.
- kehrlann 14y agoNot all of us are professional virus analysts. No need to mock him, his post is worth reading for mere amateurs like myself.
- strictfp 14y agoTrue. Just find it odd that this gets posted on the official blog. Interesting indeed, but a bit careless.
- simonbrown 14y agoHow did he get pwned or not take necessary precautions? He could have re-imaged it after running the virus to prevent something like this from happening (assuming that's how it did), but it was all in a virtual machine, so there wasn't much risk to not doing it. Disclaimer: I'm not a professional virus analyst.
- runn1ng 14y agoWhy amateur? He was running it in virtual machine to see what the virus is actually doing.