Re: Is VMware the answer to spyware

ZOverLord
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Re: Is VMware the answer to spyware

You asked the Question.

My answer would be no.

There needs to be a total solution, something that allows recovery under almost every possible method of corruption and or infection.

I think VMware itself is great if you need to test/emulate different system setup's but....for protection, I think it's complicated at best, and when it is only for browser features weak at best for total system security.

Without Double Posting, check this:

»Real Computer Security: File & Dir Permissions

You may want to give it a try, because unlike a restore from backup or even a restore point ("Which we all know by now can be infected as well") a disk image is maintained in a un-named partition ("Hard to go after that").

If the goal is total operating system protection, this is the best method I have seen yet.

No matter how much malware is installed while someone was logged on using this, No matter what someone accidentally changed or deleted, once they log off, the disk is restored to the way it was prior to the infection and or accident, and this is done very quickly, faster than a restore point and much faster than using a backup/restore.

As of this date, I have not seen any other methods which provide the same total solution.

Automatic recovery without as much as a Mouse Click

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