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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 103564" data-source="post: 1063721">MalwareTips...1st tip should be, don&#039;t play with live malware. You have been here long enough to remember the moderator littlebits. Do you remember when he was curious about a ransomware and ran it in a VM and it escaped onto the host and encrypted half of his personal work files. I do, and littlebits was not an average user or new to these things. Encouraging users that have no business messing with these dangerous things is irresponsible at best. Had a lab person in another thread stating encouraging children to play with malware as young as 4 years old so they can learn was ok. I told him he should just hand that 4 year old the car keys while he was it, it&#039;s the same concept, handing them dangerous items. How some users can consider themselves professional while stating it&#039;s ok to play with live malware at home, on your personal network, on a public ISP is beyond my ability to comprehend.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 103564, post: 1063721"] MalwareTips... 1st tip should be, don't play with live malware. You have been here long enough to remember the moderator littlebits. Do you remember when he was curious about a ransomware and ran it in a VM and it escaped onto the host and encrypted half of his personal work files. I do, and littlebits was not an average user or new to these things. Encouraging users that have no business messing with these dangerous things is irresponsible at best. Had a lab person in another thread stating encouraging children to play with malware as young as 4 years old so they can learn was ok. I told him he should just hand that 4 year old the car keys while he was it, it's the same concept, handing them dangerous items. How some users can consider themselves professional while stating it's ok to play with live malware at home, on your personal network, on a public ISP is beyond my ability to comprehend. [/QUOTE]

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