From: "Geo" 

That's what I was talking about too. Whatever layers there are outside the
VM are still just as exposed from inside the VM as from the network. I
think there's been enough worms that it should be clear there are still
plenty of opportunities. Any place you communicate outside the VM (disk,
com ports, network, video, IR, keyboard, cd, bluetooth, fan control,
whatever, you are still exposed to driver hacks and there are enough of
these interfaces available from inside the VM that aren't available from
the network that the risk should still be greater than being hacked from
the network.

A VM really only sandboxes application hacks to some degree, but those
hacks then yeild access to these additional interfaces. And I'm not aware
of any way to firewall these interfaces.

Geo.


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:45572284{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Why would it be any more difficult than breaking into a PC from the
> > network?
>
> It's identical from that type of attack -- what he's talking about is
> getting from the VM to the host in some easier way than a LAN attack.

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