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		temporaryvector on July 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers I've always been a bit curious, do these types of programs make any attempt to identify whether they're running in a VM?

jedieaston on July 3, 2020 [–]

They could, but since so much of healthcare sits inside Citrix these days, it's unlikely that in OP's scenario it would've mattered. It's pretty easy to find out if you are running in a VM on Windows though, so I bet they do.

Kaze404 on July 3, 2020 | [–]

It's also just as easy to hide it.

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