On 07/29/2009 04:52 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ken > Kixmoeller/fh<[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is what I did, too. But if you are really *only* using it for >> testing your stuff, why do you need AV at all? On my Vista box, I >> test my apps and web apps, period. No eMail, no Web surfing, no >> nuttin. (Oh, OK: I play music and movies on it.) > > Music and movies are binary formats that can include executable stuff. > Exploits that crash players are pretty well documented. Flash and PDF > both have malware in the wild. > > Windows is simply not safe to run. Twice as unsafe without anti-virus. > >> If I am doing even >> marginally risky, I do that with my Mac or Linux box. On the rare >> situation where I need to download any file that will end up on the >> Vista machine, I will scan it on my W2K box with AVG before it >> touches the Vista box. > > Sounds like you're being careful. > > My subcontractors will likely adopt the box as another workstation, > surfing and reading mail, so I need to lock it down as tightly as > possible. I plan to set it up to dual-boot Ubuntu so they can start to > see the power of the Other Side. >
You might consider running Vista in a Sun's Virtualbox or a VMware virtual box hosted in Ubuntu. Then have your client use the Ubuntu tools like Firefox and Thunderbird for all web surfing and limit Vista to only those applications not supported under Ubuntu. Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
