On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 04:40:03 UTC+10, Lorenzo Lamas wrote: > Imho it would still be a good idea because of the PaX protections on user > applications. > For example it could prevent exploitation of your mail client. The infection > may not be able to survive AppVM reboot but it could still steal information. > You can of course limit the damage by compartmentalizing more granular, but > that doesn't prevent it in the first place and more AppVMs means more > resource usage.
That's how I looked at it too. (Additionally, reboots don't protect against infections in /home, such as malicious browser extension, modified .bash_rc, etc.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/c00da32c-e7d5-4116-a48f-487703937bed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
