Reply to post: Re: Hide, hide, hide ...

Malware figures out it's running on VMs and refuses to execute

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Hide, hide, hide ...

They could also just check to see how many CPU's are available to the OS. Not bullet-proof obviously but it could thin the numbers. Combined with other tell-tales it could end up being quite difficult to trick the malware into running.

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