Hello. I have two questions about snapshots. I just made a snapshot, which is the first one I have ever made. I read the relevant part of the manual, at least in the part of the help file talking about it.
First, is it true to say that reverting to a snapshot that I had taken prior to having acquired a virus in the guest OS, or to having suffered other detrimental effects on the guest from such malware, would effectively eliminate the virus altogether, or its detrimental effects, and would clean the guest system entirely, returning it to the pristine condition existing at the time of having made the snapshot? Is that a true statement, or is there still a potential for reverting to a snapshot without eliminating the malware completely? I am asking this question because I just made a snapshot of a VM's guest OS, but I can see that this snapshot does not appear to be exactly equal in size to the current file size; it is rather much smaller (as if expecting possibly to re-use some of it later on?). So, if later on something were to be re-used of the condition existing at that time, it would seem as if potential exists for holding on to the malware too. What am I missing in that idea? Secondly, after making this snapshot, I can see in the VB Manger where this machine's name is now followed in parenthesis by the word (Snapshot 1) while the machine itself is not yet running. So, I am getting the impression that if I were to start working with this machine, it would load up the snapshot automatically. However, this is not what I want to do, I think. I do not want to overwrite the snapshot with new data. I want to preserve it as it is so that I can revert to it if need be, and I want to continue working with the previous state of affairs. Am I not thinking about this thing correctly right now? I do not want to inadvertently overwrite or lose my snapshot, and that is what appears to be active in the machine currently. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
