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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-10-23 23:37:28
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: "Gary Britt" 

All good points.

Gary

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>> 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?
>
> So you buy something on the web, software, coffee beans, whatever. Now
> what
> happens to the software since you can't install it except in the VM? What
> happens to your receipt for the coffee beans since you can't save it
> anywhere but within the VM? How do you get your banking records from one
> side of the VM to the other so you can pay bills online?
>
> If you use your CC in the VM, isn't your CC information still at risk
> since
> everything in the VM is still hackable?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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