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<blockquote data-quote="Aura" data-source="post: 236058" data-attributes="member: 25785">I know this is an old post but, Jack is right. I&#039;ve never seen a malware that escaped a VM to infect the host system before. Nor on my computers, nor on the computers of people I&#039;ve been assisting both IRL and online. These malwares exists, YES, but most of the time, they have been created to target specific users and organisations or to bypass certain specific piece of software. In fact, these kind of malwares are mainly ... &quot;custom coded&quot; for the specific situation they&#039;ll be used in. Yes it&#039;s possible to come across a malware that will inject itself in your shared RAM and jump from the VM to the host system, it can happen, or will spread using the shared clipboard feature, etc. but these are still quite rare. It&#039;s like BIOS-Rootkits. They are very rare, made to be used in specific situations against specific people and organisations so I doubt you&#039;ll ever get one if you know what you&#039;re doing. I don&#039;t say that you&#039;ll never get once, the chance is still there but it&#039;s pretty low if you ask me.Just my 2 cents on the matter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aura, post: 236058, member: 25785"] I know this is an old post but, Jack is right. I've never seen a malware that escaped a VM to infect the host system before. Nor on my computers, nor on the computers of people I've been assisting both IRL and online. These malwares exists, YES, but most of the time, they have been created to target specific users and organisations or to bypass certain specific piece of software. In fact, these kind of malwares are mainly ... "custom coded" for the specific situation they'll be used in. Yes it's possible to come across a malware that will inject itself in your shared RAM and jump from the VM to the host system, it can happen, or will spread using the shared clipboard feature, etc. but these are still quite rare. It's like BIOS-Rootkits. They are very rare, made to be used in specific situations against specific people and organisations so I doubt you'll ever get one if you know what you're doing. I don't say that you'll never get once, the chance is still there but it's pretty low if you ask me. Just my 2 cents on the matter. [/QUOTE]

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