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On 08/08/13 17:23, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Simon Avery wrote: >> Running either Windows or Linux in a VM is not inherently more secure >> than running it on your main machine. I suppose you might argue that >> you have less software installed so >> it's more secure, but that could be counter-argued with "one more >> system to keep up to date" - or rather, "One more system to forget to >> keep up to date" > > Of course, running something inside a VM isn't more secure*. What > would be more secure, and what I believe was being referred to, is > setting up your OS once, taking a snapshot and then using that > snapshot every time for online banking. Unless you managed to get > yourself infected before you took the snapshot of course, but that's > quite unlikely. Would it not be easier to boot a live cd each time you wanted to use internet banking, Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq