skcin7

I want everyone to know that I am the one who posted the question at Stack Overflow. I am new here and unsure if this type of practice is okay or not. If it is not then please kindly ignore it, but I figured you guys would be more familiar with the problem I am asking and be better able to lend a solution. I tried to make the question as informative and descriptive as I could. I am trying to launch my first startup (who isn't) which is more or less done if I could only figure out how the damn data-flow is going to work. On a side-note, hacker news is awesome and I love this website. Cheers! -Nick (first submission here)

Makes sense. That is good advice but as oconnore pointed out that even a VM can be exploited, though I think your solution would work well in the majority of cases. I suppose using a virtual copy of Windows in my OS X wouldn't be 100% safe because of the exploit. I suppose I'll be getting out my old Dell Windows XP machine then to test this out until I am sure it is safe (which I imagine it is but who knows), and if something happens to it then I'll just wipe the drive and re-install Windows. Poison Ivy seems like it would be an awesome tool to know which would be worth my time.

What's the best way to scan a file (Windows) then to ensure it's clean? I believe this file to be clean, I suppose I'm just asking to better understand the theory.

So if I download (which I already did) and install this file, how can I know it's not going to inject code into my own computer?