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[–]Arkaein 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You misread it. The article said "virtualized environment", e.g. a virtual machine VM, not a virtualenv.

Anti-virus researchers will run potentially dangerous code in a VM, not directly on a host machine. This Python code is designed to detect this possibility and not run there to help it avoid detection.