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Chapter 3: Building a Sandbox > Creating a Live DVD with VMware and CWSandbox - Pg. 78

78 Chapter3·BuildingaSandbox Creating a Live DVD with VMware and CWSandbox While working at Portland State University, two students, Fred Shore and Andreas Turriff, created a bootable DVD containing VMware, a virtual Windows XP Pro instance, and the CWSandbox. The following sections contain that report and will help you build your own instance. Even though these instructions use the CWSandbox, the skills described will permit you to substitute the sandbox tool of your choice. This project began as the brainchild of Craig Schiller, the CISO at Portland State University. The idea was to create a bootable Linux Live DVD that included a virtual version of Windows XP and CWSandbox for use in the classroom and in the field for the manual analysis of malware. We created a Live DVD because the necessary files would not fit on a CD. The minimum hardware requirements for the creation and maintenance of the Live DVD is an Intel Pentium III-based PC with at least a 20 gigabyte IDE hard drive, a read/write DVD-ROM drive, and at least 512 megabytes of RAM. The minimum hardware requirements for use of the Live DVD in the field or in