Re: Virtual Machine Trojans: a new type of threat?

[Peter Ferrie <peter.ferrie () gmail com>]

> When a user downloads a virtual machine from the Internet, and then
> runs it on his/her computer, the antivirus installed in the host machine
> simply does not have access to the virtual machine, so the virtual machine
> does not get scanned.

That is simply not true.  AVs can see inside VM images, and scan the files.
The user can also install the AV inside the VM, which will also see the files.

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