Over the years, malware developers and cybersecurity experts have been at war trying to one-up each other. Recently, the malware developer community deployed a new strategy evade detection: checking the screen resolution. Let’s explore why screen resolution matters to malware, and what it means for you. Why Malware Cares About Screen Resolution To find out why malware cares about the screen resolution, we have to take a look at one of its worst enemies; the virtual machine. Virtual machines are a useful tool for virus researchers.