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Secure Internet Browsing
From: "Rodrigo Blanco" <rodrigo.blanco.r () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:08:04 -0600
Hello list, these days I have been taking a look at the solution for secure Internet browsing based on VMWare player + Browser Appliance (Ubuntu virtual image running firefox). I especially like three things of it: apprently more resistant to virus / spyware / malware, browser does not run with admin / root privileges and the auto-revert feature, that will automatically revert the machine to its original state, no matter what visited sites have added (cookies, malware...) to the client. I had already heard of other solutions, more suitable for corporate environments, such as a Citrix-based IE browser, on a machine that is re-built everyday (maybe through some virtualization solution) so that any infection is automatically eliminated daily. While these solutions will help prevent against spyware, malware and viruses, I still have the feeling they still would be vulnerable to keyloggers or resident programs able to capture mouse / GUI events. I.e. if the machine running the VMPlayer has a keylogger running, it would still be able to capture keystrokes sent to the Browser Appliance virtual machine. What is your opinion? Do you know of solutions that will provide a "reasonably complete" security for browsing? Are they suitable for both home and corporate environments? Thanks for any comments and kind regards, Rodrigo.
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