On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:51:20 +0300, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800, Grant wrote:
It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access
to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the
contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks. Does that sound like a
possibility?
Not unless you have the vmware directory mounted within the guest OS. The
VM cannot access filesystems on the host unless they are created as disks
on the VM or network mounted.
This is correct, but if the virtual machine is on the same network as the
host, then it is posible to get the VM, than the host, and finally to
delete the VM.
Theoretically it is also possible to get to the host through the VmWare
Tools, provided they are installed on the guest, but I have never heard
this done.
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Andrei Gerasimenko
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