[em-bee]

i believe fair use only applies to software that you legally acquired.

if microsoft copies an application from my computer without asking, then it did not legally acquire it.

malware is a different case. malware entered my computer with the permission of the malware creator. i didn't steal it from them, but it came to me willingly. hence i am allowed to analyze it, and i am allowed to delegate that task to someone else.

[cududa]

Yes but who’s to say it came to your machine under such circumstances

[icebraining]

Microsoft is the one that has to prove it has a valid license, not the other way around.

[crest]

Let Microsoft deal with VirtualBox license claims from Oracle.