[Full-Disclosure] Imaging Operating Systems

[Chmielarski TOM-ATC090]

VMWare is a great way to go. You get a quarantined "guest" OS that you can restore by simply replacing a file. You can also take a "snapshot" of the OS and then just revert to that snapshot anytime you like. You can also set up a private LAN that is isolated to your test computer for multiple guest Oses - lets you watch how the applications want to communicate.

Baseline system -> Snapshot -> Do Bad Thing -> Rebaseline -> Revert to snapshot and Compare baselines -> Repeat as needed

- Tom Chmielarski



-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin at lists.netsys.com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin at lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of James Riden
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:24 PM
To: mbs at mistrealm.com
Cc: Full-Disclosure
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Imaging Operating Systems


Michael Schaefer <mbs at mistrealm.com> writes:

> Hi all
>
> We are building a Windows test system, to try out tool bars, spy ware, 
> malware and trojans on.
>
> Once we learn what we need to know, we obviously want to get rid of 
> the junk quickly and cleanly.
>
> I keep hearing suggestions about having a "clean image" to transfer 
> onto the computer.
>
> Can anyone send some details?

Ghost or Altiris can do this for you.

-- 
James Riden / j.riden at massey.ac.nz / Systems Security Engineer Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ. GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/

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