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echo: nthelp
to: Rich Gauszka
from: Geo
date: 2006-10-23 22:43:20
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: "Geo" 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:453c58e5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Microsoft has a nice feature ( 'undo disks' ) in Virtual PC to facilitate
a
> browser sandbox. You could probaly do something similar in VMware using a
> 'linked clone'

You may as well just pull the hard drive and boot a knoppix CD. That's not
secure browsing, that's an unmodifiable system that saves nothing beyond
the next reboot.

Secure browsing is where untrusted code cannot change the system, making it
so browsing cannot change the system is not the same thing.

Geo.

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