Re: Is there a safe way to check out an EXE file?

"John" <nothanks@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is there any way of testing, or checking out what a particular .exe file
> will do? Opening it in notepas is worthless. It would be great if there was
> way to run the tink in some kind of "safe testing environement" that can
> give a log of just what the exe did.
>
> Anything even close? I'd like to know if there are hidden virus,trojan,
> loggers etc.

VMWare is a useful tool for this sort of thing--you start with a
windows virtual machine and can run it in there.

A disassembler would be what you'd want to really get into the gritty
details. Without training or a lot of knowledge of assembly
programming, you may not want to go there.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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