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Network Configuration
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Now it's the time to setup the network configuration for your virtual machine.

Windows Settings
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Before configuring the underlying networking of the virtual machine, you might
want to trick some settings inside Windows itself.

One of the most important things to do is **disabling** *Windows Firewall* and the
*Automatic Updates*. The reason behind this is that they can affect the behavior
of the malware under normal circumstances and that they can pollute the network
analysis performed by Cuckoo, by dropping connections or including unrelevant
requests.

You can do so from Windows' Control Panel as shown in the picture:

    .. figure:: ../../_images/screenshots/windows_security.png
        :align: center

Virtual Networking
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Now you need to decide how to make your virtual machine able to access Internet
or your local network.

While in previous releases Cuckoo used shared folders to exchange data between
the Host and Guests, from release 0.4 it adopts a custom agent that works
over the network using a simple XMLRPC protocol.

In order to make it work properly you'll have to configure your machine's
network so that the Host and the Guest can communicate.
Test network trying to ping a guest is a good practice, to be sure about
virtual network setup.

This stage is very much up to your own requirements and to the
characteristics of your virtualization software.