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to: Rich Gauszka
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-10-23 08:21:52
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: "John Beamish" 

But suppose I add a site to "Favourites".  Does that get lost,
too?  Is there an alternative method where I can save the new favourite but
still have "undo disk" perform its magic?

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:50:24 -0400, Rich Gauszka  wrote:

> 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'
>
> http://www.devx.com/vmspecialreport/Article/30377
>
> The single most valuable feature of using a virtual machine for browsing
> is
> the undo capability. Microsoft implements this with its undo disks
> feature.
> The idea is simple: Whatever takes place in the guest machine, such as
> inadvertently downloading spyware, is written to another file instead of
> the
> principal virtual hard disk file where the OS and applications are
> installed. When the browsing session ends, the guest machine is turned
> off
> without saving any of the changes that occurred while it was running.
> The undo disks feature is off by default, so you must enable it.
>

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