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Originally Posted by f33dback
..I do all web surfing via a virtual machine in my case I use VMware but there is a free version called Virtualbox. (it's good too)
The benefit is any infection/malware hits the VM not the host, you can shut off sharing between the VM and the host so there's less danger of infection to the host and the number of vectors/malware out there that include the ability to hop from a VM to the host target corporations specifically...
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Yep, me too. Have the kids' computers set up this way too. Power off reverts to the snapshot. Starts clean every time and no viruses.
VERY rarely do any web activity on the host.