On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Manuel Cornejo <[email protected]> wrote: > Doesn't Qubes need and antivirus? What happend if on Qubes we set a VM with > Windows 7 in it? Would you install antivirus on the virtual machine hoping > that is going to be (the same /more) effective than the traditional not > virtualized scenario? How do you protect your Qubes machine from virus? Just > by putting down the VM and what about with bios rootkits and other malware?
IMO you are much better off using templates to ensure you don't use compromised windows VMs to deal with data you care about than you would be trying to use antivirus (a.k.a. "throwing all the untrusted input at all the complex parsers, often with extremely weak sandboxing"). -- 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/CABQWM_AfUt7SQkLTp9kR%3Dj%3DA6bihvUhz9gJTtw9oL0%2B8W6CpDA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
