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I'm following a tutorial on fork bomb and thought it was pretty interesting. TL;DR: It's basically just a program that replicates itself until the computer freezes/crashes.

I want to see how it actually looks like when executing but don't want to screw up my computer. What's a safe way to try out batch file viruses?

MrRobot
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You can run it in a virtual machine. A virtual machine emulates a computer on your computer. You can give it a limited amount of resources (CPU's, memory) and the environment on the virtual machine can not access the computer it runs on. Popular software to run virtual machines are VirtualBox and VMWare.

Sjoerd
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  • Thanks, I'll give that a shot. Hmmm, any idea if there's a non-piracy way to get virtual images for windows? – MrRobot Feb 21 '17 at 09:20
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    @MrRobot You can find test images of Windows [here](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/). Just select the version of Windows, and then the virtualization platform. – MiaoHatola Feb 21 '17 at 09:47