Curious Posted December 8, 2015 ID:1005771 Share Posted December 8, 2015 ... What do I need to do to get MBAE to protect VMWare workstation? (Means MBAE is installed in host and how to protect VMWare application, not the guest os) And can I install another MBAE in guest? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
btmp Posted December 8, 2015 ID:1005796 Share Posted December 8, 2015 yes, you can install the free/trial version of MBAE inside a virtual machine even if you have it on your host. I've done this quite often. As for protecting it, I usually disable the Workstation server service as I have no need for remote access to a VM. Might consider adding that one if you do. I usually just set it to protect VMNat.exe these days. I believe I tried adding most of the other exes as well without issue so you could give it a try if you wanted.I stopped protecting most of them as vmnat is the only internet enabled one constantly running on the system. vmware-vmx.exe is where the guest os runs but I'm not sure how effective MBAE would be against something like venom:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2117469but thankfully vmware products were not affected in this case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Posted December 9, 2015 Author ID:1005947 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hi btmp once again! So I find it hard to find all vmware related .exe so I simply just add shield from the vmware services that shows up in task manager will that do (Total 5 .exe)? And about the Workstation server service is it the 'vmware-hostd.exe'? How do you disable it? By task manager or thru the vmware client, Would adding shield to it be sufficient enough? Thanks again btmp for helping to clarify my doubts! Out of topic: Upon adding shield I found that I could just simply write that the file name... *laughs* had been always searching thru folders to add shield... anyway would MBAE able to shield other files like .dll? (Though .dll dont run by itself ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff pbust Posted December 9, 2015 Staff ID:1005992 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Nope, only executable program files (i.e. EXE). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
btmp Posted December 9, 2015 ID:1006016 Share Posted December 9, 2015 yes, the service is VMwareHostd and it can be disabled via the standard gui in services.msc or directly in regedit by setting start to 4 under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VMwareHostd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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