On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:31:13 -0400, FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:08:05 -0700 (PDT), in microsoft.public.virtualpc,
>Rich <richmarin@xxxxxx>, wrote
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>>
>>If is use a Virtual PC HVD to browse the internet. And if I am
>>attacked by spy ware or computer viruses. Will the get to my real PC
>>or just harm the Virtual PC?
>>
>>Thanking you all in advance.
>
>The stock answer is no, your host system would not be infected. That
>assumes a self-contained virtual pc on your host system.
>
>The reality depends on the virus' manner of replication. (I doubt that
>spyware would be a concern).
>
>If you used shared networking or shared folders the virus could spread
>through transferred files for example. Or possibly through networked
>system interface, though I could not speak to that.
>
>Consider this too, one of the popular virus replication methods is to send
>themselves in emails. You could send -- or have silently sent -- an email
>from your virtual machine that you then received in your host machine.
>That could spread it from the VPC to the Host. And, if you can send an email from the VM to the host that means there
is a network connection between them and the host is open to any
malware or virus via that network.
--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.