deadforg,

Please be careful!.......this really is not a game. You should not attempt to analyse a live virus on a production machine, one that you share or one that is owned by someone else...........you will damage yourself and others!

You need a dedicated "laboratory" or "sacrificial goat" box, that does not matter if it gets killed.

Another point is, that if your defences are any good, they should not let you do such a thing? So you need to be running an undefended (sacrificial) system.............please do not do this on a network

I am put in mind of the tale in Greek mythology about Pandora's Box?.............if you let one of these things loose you harm others, so be CAREFUL!!!

I would recommend going to the AV sites such as Symantec, Nai, Panda, Kaspersky and so on; and reading up their analyses first. You then need to set yoursef up with the proper hardware and software environments..........hey, a lot of this stuff is encrypted, polymorphic, compressed etc.........?

Once again.......please be careful...these things are dangerous, and you might harm innocent bystanders.

Cheers