You lost me. I thought the participants you were having with VMs was file portability. I typically don’t access the interswebs from VMs, but I haven’t had much problem with virii in VMs. One other feature unique to VMs that might be relevant to you in that respect, is that you can constantly keep reverting the VM to a fixed state, so long as you’ve already moved your work filed off there, so viruses can’t really get a foothold. I don’t do that, but as I said, I’ve never had much issue with viruses in VMs.
Yeah i posted that thinking you were responding from a thread on VM vulnerabilities that i posted in yesterday- here’s the link talking about how to possibly make the Internet ‘safer’- my comments there were about things like TOR being unsafe actually because it’s a red flag when used- and others mentioned VM’s - i thought you were responding to me from that thread- I didn’t check the title of this thread you responded from lol- my bad- here’s the link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3539968/posts
[[is that you can constantly keep reverting the VM to a fixed state, so long as you’ve already moved your work filed off there, so viruses can’t really get a foothold.]]
In regards to this- if you have shared files, drives etc- they are vulnerable to virii - although running a linux host and windows VM i believe is safer- not sure that the virii can jump os’s like that as most virii are written for only windows