I want to make a computer (cheaper) to run viruses. The OS must be rolled back to its initial state. Any ideas?

Question

Malware

In general, I want to have a computer on which I will launch the virus, it will work, I will sniff its traffic and then I will roll it back to the initial state.
Any ideas how to implement this?
The virtual machine will not help detect its viruses and refuse to work.

Answer 1

On Windiows, turn on the system protection mechanism, and set up a regular backup.
If the virus did not put the system tightly, a rollback will help, otherwise restore from the backup, in principle, not for long.
The second option is to boot not from a real disk, but from a virtual one. That is, no virtualization, the usual system is loaded from a VHD file.
Restoring to the original by replacing the file with the original.

Answer 2

Simply and easily. You put esxi on the computer. She eats a little bit from you, 300 meters of RAM and 300MHz processor.
And then you roll the OS you need into virtualization. Take a snapshot and then do what you want with the car. I rolled back to the previous snapshot and everything is OK.

Answer 3

Any disk snapshot program. If the minimum OS size (XP for example) + SSD, then the rollback will take seconds.

Answer 4

It’s much easier to take Ubuntu (Or something to your taste) We install a virtual machine, install Windows on it and take a snapshot of the system and run whatever we want on it, and then roll back to that snapshot of the system .... This is both fast and reliable, but because that the host will be Linux, the threat to the host will be minimal

Answer 5

The virtual machine will not help detect its viruses and refuse to work.

It turns out that you can not install antiviruses on virtual machines?

Answer 6

If you don't like a regular backup, take Acronis, make a full disk image with MBR, boot from a USB flash drive or DVD to roll back, and roll back. I sometimes test installations with tricky pieces of iron. A full rollback of a clean seven on a more or less fast disk takes about five to seven minutes. You can take an SSD, it will be a little faster.