Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List 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.
>