Re: [Hampshire] Linux virtual machine inside Windows

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Linux virtual machine inside Windows
2008/12/4 trotter <m.nuttall@???>:
> But isn't that the point really?
>


No, my point was that if you have to go to the extreme of installing
an entire VM to run an alternate OS then you're doing it wrong.

> You don't necessarily know if windows is free of malware as detection
> is reactive to an infection being common enough for the security
> companies to work on detection.
>


You don't know if your Linux box is free of malware. How can you know?

> Yes its a paranoid question but also an academic/interesting one.
>


I don't see it as paranoid, but odd.

Cheers,
Al.