It would indeed be satisfying to learn the cyber- criminals with such creative and clever minds had medical degrees and instead of resarching the effectivness of new strains of malware were instead devoting their efforts to developing cures for new strains of human viruses.
Clever Malware Is Clever, Adds New Anti-Detection Tricks http://news.softpedia.com/news/clever-malware-is-clever-adds-new-anti-detection-tricks-508596.shtml *Some of those checks performed on my real system would make malware to believe it is running in VM