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Is the guest os considered on the inside of the firewall of the host os? In other words is the guest have some firewall protection because the network traffic is coming through the McAfee firewall on the host?

Jon Tsujimura

Only with Bridge mode a VM needs its own firewall.

vbox4me2 wrote:Only with Bridge mode a VM needs its own firewall.

So in other words,since I am not in bridge mode, I should be ok. So the Guest os should be protected from from the Internet, right?

Jon in Hawaii...............

In theory yes, get the angry ip scanner or portqry and scan your guest.