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mindless-area
Personal blog · wbenny.github.iosystemssecurity
mindless-area is a personal blog at wbenny.github.io about systems and security. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “I made my VM think it has a CPU fan”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post, about making a virtual machine appear to be a real computer so that malware's VM-detection checks miss it. One comment cites it as another example of such detection tells.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- I made my VM think it has a CPU fan2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-29
What Hacker News says?
There's other tells, like this other top HN post right now tries to work around: https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-ha...
Comment linking /2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html
on “Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)”Submitted I made my VM think it has a CPU fan as a story · 679 points
HN discussionSubmitted WoW64 internals as a story · 4 points
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