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echo: nthelp
to: Gary Britt
from: Geo
date: 2006-10-23 22:38:40
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: "Geo" 

It would depend on how the VM is implemented. If the VM has no access to
the RM (real machine) then sure but soon as you start allowing a vm to
interact with the file system or control printers and other devices or cut
and paste via a global clipboard, game over. So unless you want the VM to
also have a virtual disk and be totally isolated from the rest of the
system, no that's not going to be sufficient.

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:453c4dec$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> What about running the browser in a virtual machine, does that keep the
> insecurities sufficiently boxed in?
>
> Gary

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