I’ve been looking for a job. I applied to one recently and came across something a little scammy. Seconds after getting a thank you for applying email, I got an email saying I had to run software to prove I met the requirements to work from home. Plug the computer into the modem and run their test. Wasn’t happening on my daily driver. I ran it through some VMs.
The link in the email was for what looks like a head hunter software firm. It redirected to the company’s website. The company I applied to. I tested with Flare Vm running on Proxmox on an old I3 server I have. The Flare VM passed everything but the processor test. It wanted an i5 or higher. I didn’t bother to get screenshots, because I thought I’d run it again on something with a newer processor.
I spent today (the day I wrote the blog post, not the day it was published) setting up a Flare VM on my laptop. I loaded up the Flare VM, and started Wireshark, Regshot, and Procmon. I started Edge, went to the link again, only to get a blank page with no option to test. Note: The site said after I ran the test to try again from another computer. But there was nothing there to run this time.
There were two takeaways from this.
1. I should have built some Flare VMs sooner, because they take a while to build. Build them before you want to use them.
2. Follow the rules of getting screenshots and taking notes as you work because it would have made a great blog post walking through the steps.