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Hey gang,
I'm kind of interested in learning some hacking/virus basics. I wanted to try out some scripts but I'm kind da nervous. Can I run simple viruses on a VM without worrying about my laptop getting infected too? I would think so, but I wanna be sure.

Also, if you have any resources you can point me to, that would be great. Thanks!

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    You are safe, just open the prey in vm rather than the host
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    Cybrary is a goodish free resource.
    There's also a great book on reverse engineering by Bruce Dang (but it requires you to be familiar with x86 assembly and Windows internals)
    Also, see if you can find EC-Council study material, especially for their penetration testing certifications (CEH and all).
    And finally, Black Hat Python is a really interesting book on how to use Python for...nefarious purposes.

    And yes, VMs are totally safe as long as there's no link to the host. You can simulate a whole network of devices, complete with a firewall and everything, and simulate various scenarios. If you have enough RAM. Very cool stuff.
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