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On Thursday 05 July 2007 09:33, Terry Hill wrote: > Here's an idea to get pulled to bits. > > USB Stick, FAT, Vmware player + a linux image. Image + player set to > use existing connection. Thats wifi dealt with. Also means no > rebooting of existing pc. VMWARE is run in a sandbox. > > I guess what this doesn't help with is if the m$ op sys has a > keylogger in it. Need to do some research here to see what happens. > > I guess two partitions on the USB, with a bootable linux part with > clam AV ready to check the m$ partition? > > My idea is probably full of holes like a swiss cheese - anyone? As you succinctly state - the VM could already be compromised. Putting a watertight room in a sinking ship isn't going to keep it afloat. You could run linux and browse securely with that and then run the sinking ship within a VM tho.. - but not Vista as M$ has (finally - new technology confuses them so) worked out the DRM falls apart so the whole raison d'etre is nullified! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html