Can the Windows Guest be infected with a virus?

rynovz · Post by **rynovz** » 28. Oct 2009, 10:05

The company I am working for has a real virus problem and we are struggling to get rid of the infection. My boss came up with the solution to run Windows as a guest OS on Linux. Being a Linux user myself I looked at virtualbox as a solution. My question is: will it solve our virus problem or will the guest OS still be infected?

Post by **MarkCranness** » 28. Oct 2009, 12:37

The guest OS can get as easily infected as a physical PC having the same network connectivity and running the same programs.
(The VM when its network card uses NAT is in effect running behind a router, so that can perhaps prevent some attacks.)

Infections can more easily be removed (with everything else...) by Reverting a snapshot.

http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/User_FAQ · Post by **stefan.becker** » 28. Oct 2009, 20:08

One of the most discussed topics. Use esarch function.

rynovz · Post by **rynovz** » 29. Oct 2009, 13:22

stefan.becker wrote:One of the most discussed topics. Use esarch function.

I will start to use the search when you learn how to spell search, but I thank you for the sound advice.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 29. Oct 2009, 13:24

rynovz wrote:
stefan.becker wrote:One of the most discussed topics. Use esarch function.
I will start to use the search when you learn how to spell search, but I thank you for the sound advice.

We will take you serious after you've read the Forum Posting Guide and follow it.

rynovz · Post by **rynovz** » 29. Oct 2009, 13:31

Sasquatch wrote:
rynovz wrote:
stefan.becker wrote:One of the most discussed topics. Use esarch function.
I will start to use the search when you learn how to spell search, but I thank you for the sound advice.
We will take you serious after you've read the Forum Posting Guide and follow it.

Sorry o' big one, don't have time to read. In any case my purpose on this forum is done.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 29. Oct 2009, 13:45

Very well. In that case I'm locking this one to keep it clean.

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