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Then, she mounted an ISO. Not a Windows installer, but a custom image containing the worm’s first sector. From the VM’s perspective, it was a CD-ROM drive appearing from nowhere.

She didn’t trust the real world anymore. Her own laptop, a high-end Dell Precision, might be compromised. But inside the VMware hypervisor, she controlled the laws of physics. She could pause time (suspend). Rewind it (snapshots). Build entire virtual networks—a domain controller, a workstation, a firewall—all on a single keyboard. vmware workstation pro 17

The snapshot vanished. The worm’s last three minutes of existence evaporated like a dream. Then, she mounted an ISO

Now she could roll back forever. Study the worm’s encryption routine. Reverse its kill switch. She could even run it 100 times in parallel using the “VM Groups” feature, each in a different language locale, to see if it behaved differently. She didn’t trust the real world anymore