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Is It Safe?

Thanks for the security advisory.

Windows users should know that they have another 'option' at their disposal for if and when they venture onto the internet:

VMWare Player's 'Browser-Appliance'.

Found at:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html

What does this do?

In puts your internet into a safe 'sand box' running in a 'virtual machine' with Linux Unbuntu 5.1

The fact is Windows suffers from so many security vulnerabilities that running an alternate O/S such as Linux avoids these issues entirely.

I've spent a few days testing the VMWare 'Browser-Appliance' and can say that, at first blush, it's pretty good and runs the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 browser.

Depending on your needs, this may or may not be an option to consider--this advice coming from a 'reformed' Windows User who now enjoys the relative 'serenity' of using SuSE Linux 10.0.

It's a very interesting turn of events that VMWare chose to provide this 'alternative' to the Windows User Community!

Give it a look and if you have a high-speed BroadBand connection, you can finish the download and be up and running in a Linux VM session in about an hour--including download time for the 'Browser-Appliance.vmx' image file.

Be Safe!

OK Thanks Suzi

Posted by: D. T. Schmitz   Posted on: 01/20/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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