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to: Rich Gauszka
from: John Beckett
date: 2006-10-23 19:11:04
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: John Beckett 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> 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'

Interesting - thanks. I'm really going to have to try this RSN!

However, using a VM is probably only a "guaranteed" sandbox for
as long as it is not a common practice. As soon as VMs become commonly used
to avoid malware, the malware authors will look for holes they can poke
through to access  the guest system. For example, if I download a file I
want to keep, can I be sure I haven't got other stuff?

John

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