The Ubuntu Experiment

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/31 Steve C. Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org>:
> The fact that now any malware on the net would have to get past
> adblockplus, bust Firefox, do something malicious on Linux and then try to
> bust out of a VM to get to the real OS is just icing on the cake.  ;)
>

That is exactly the thinking behind the "browser appliance" VM image.
And just so that you know, there is a proof-of-concept exploit that
does infect the Windows host!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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