Chinese Malware goes hunting for VMware

Yes, I know I've been MIA. The site has been borked recently, with comments getting lost, old posts (still) being deleted and a complete and utter inability to post new content.

Isn't the Blogger.com publishing interface awesome?

Anyway, jump over to Spywareguide where you'll see some nifty action from the leet haxors over in China. Someone has come up with VMware detection for a piece of Malware - if it sees you're running a Virtual Machine, it kills the rest of the install dead. Don't want all those wonderful Adware installs going to waste, right?

In addition, it checks for security tools (so it can stab them in the face and make them die), downloads additional bits of nastiness and could potentially dump you into a Botnet.

Nice, eh?