VMWindows backdoor
General Schvantzkoph From the millions of infected windows boxes on the Internet. You appear to be either unable to understand...
I have installed VMWare Workstation 5 on top of Debian 3.1 and it works very well. Really well.
I use it to mostly to learn Linux more deeply and to try some of the more far out programs and utilities. If I trash that VM session I can just dump it and clone a backup session and it leaves my base OS alone.
Just curious about the details of how you caught that infection. It never fails to amaze me that there are so many avenues for infecting a Windows machine. When I talked about...
So, I installed XP for a try and it worked every bit as good as XP on a standalone machine (Well, as good as XP ever works, that is).
Which brings me to the question I have been mulling about. With XP on VMware on Linux, are all the vunerabilities for Windoze still there? I buttume that if I was crazy enough to surf with XP, even with SP 1 and 2 loaded, that the session could still be wormed and virused. But would the damage be contained within that VM session? I don't know how deep the hooks of VM ware are imbedded in the host Linux.
Obviously, if an XP session gets trashed, it can be dumped and cloned in just a few minutes, but how protected is my real Debian install?
Anybody?
John Hastings
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