With Virtual Machines, Getting Hacked Doesn't Have to Be That Bad

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/getting-hacked-doesnt-bad/

by englishm • 11 years ago

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ChuckMcM• 11 years ago

As the article points out this is easy to do. I've had a virtual machine image for browsing for a while. Copy the image over the virtual disk, start it up, browse around, then exit. Next day do the same thing. Each time you copy the image is resets everything in the virtual machine and on a flash drive its pretty quick (actual disk image data is about 8GB).

ntw1103• 11 years ago

I have been using QubesOS for a while now, I am happy to see it got a mention. Before using qubesOS, I had a vmware VM with a browser. I believe using Qubes is a bit more secure than an OS with a hypervisor running another OS with a browser though. See: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-... Or: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_compar...

With Virtual Machines, Getting Hacked Doesn't Have to Be That Bad

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