From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:et4qj29e4s988no07ihfag0lskaoilptiu{at}4ax.com...
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:20:43 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>
>>If you get malware in a Browser VM and if the only thing you use that VM
>>for
>>is browsing does it matter?  I mean it might matter in terms of spying on
>>your browser habits but otherwise won't the malware be limited to what it
>>can see inside the VM?  If the only thing it can see or interact with
>>inside
>>the VM is the browser then does it matter?
>
>  Strictly speaking, it doesn't matter for that VM.   It would be good not
> to map from that VM to shared folders willy-nilly.

Important tidbit there - if VM's get more popular, people being how/what
they are, they'll soon get into the habit of mapping folders between the VM
and the host because hey, how else are you going to be able to save those
cool attachments your aunt Pete (hey it's a free world ) is
sending you? I think Virtual PC for instance makes it too easy to share the
folders for it to be of any use security wise for the masses.


> And if you do any online banking of any kind it is critical.

All bank logins at least here have disposable keys - there's a user ID, a
pin code and then a disposable key which is typically printed on a credit
card size piece of plastic that's easy to carry around. Pretty difficult
security to break by any virus/malware/whatever.


Antti Kurenniemi

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