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Re: ClamXav & REALbasic - trojans?

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Subject: Re: ClamXav & REALbasic - trojans?
From: Arnaud Nicolet <anic297@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:41:53 +0100
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Le 29 déc. 08 à 19:33 (soir), Bart Silverstrim a écrit:

I was pointing out one reason why it wouldn't happen. With most VM systems you have it sandboxed to a degree...there's no reason to expose the Applications folder to a Windows VM on the Mac. Those files are useless to the virtual machine guest.

Well, there's an option to just share the entire startup disk. Many users may share it to avoid asking themselves what to share in case of multiple folders needed to be shared (sometimes humans prefer the easier way, sadly).

If he shared and/or exposed the entire filesystem to the Windows guest, then in my opinion it's asking for problems. But the malware still would be scratching its' head at most of the filesystem peculiarities it would encounter with a shared drive, it would be limited to infecting just what it knows how to infect via (probably) cifs, the file sharing protocol. The raw filesystem would not work with the guest.

Hmm... I think the share is "converted" in FAT32 (otherwise, the guest OS wouldn't be allowed to write).
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