From: "John Beamish" 

Ahh - hadn't thought of tht:  how does one update the VM image that is
loaded each time (especially if you decided to have four or five images for
different uses/risk exposures).

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:24:45 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> A VM is a virtual machine, the real OS is between the VM and the
> hardware,
> yes? Well if the OS has an exploit like tcp or netbios, those are still
> exposed to the outside world so the OS still needs to be patched. How do
> you
> do that if IE is running in a VM?
>
> Geo. (perhaps integration of and dependence on the browser functions
> wasn't
> such a good idea?)
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.th7ev0pom6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> But why would I patch to begin with?
>>
>> I don't use IE.  I do use a good Firewall and two AV programs.
>>
>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:57:10 -0400, Geo  wrote:
>>
>> > "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>> > news:op.th28aah9m6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> >> But at least the VM would have to be reinfected at each
launch -- of
>> >> course, if the VM image was already infected ...
>> >
>> > How would you patch if you go to windows update from a VM browser
>> > session?
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>

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