Comments on: Are Virtual Machines Like Parallels Workstation Safe As Far As Malware?

By: Xirtan

Xirtan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:06:35 +0000

just make sure you don’t share any folders or usb ports with the host computer and it should be totally safe. but if you have a home network and you allow it on to the internet it may try to infect the other pcs on the home network.

By: Fraggle

Fraggle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:45:03 +0000

VMWare is generally considered pretty safe, although I don’t know about Parallels. Obviously the safest course of action is to run it within a VM on a dedicated, non-networked (or on an isolated and secure network) machine that gets wiped regularly.

By: soranshu

soranshu — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:23:21 +0000

First of all a virtual machine is just a software running inside another machine pretending to be a machine on its own. It looks and feels like it is the actual machine with its own memory and harddrive etc..
In a practical sense you would maximize the window running the virtual machine running a full operating system (like windows)
you would use the virtual machine to download stuff and possibly run malware. The beauty is that if there is a problem, ie a virus or malware is spread, its is ONLY the virtual machine that is infected.. not the actual machine. It is then just a matter of shutting down the virtual machine software as simple as closing a window. Sandboxing is the correct term..http://freemoviesaddict.com