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Malware now infesting my primary computer:
| 14146 votes / 72% |
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| 4331 votes / 22% |
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Re:it depends... (Score:5, Informative)
Of course the only way to be totally safe is to never switch on your computer. But a VM is an additional safety barrier because the vast majority of malware is not able to escape a VM (of course it also depends on your setup; if your VM networks with your host OS, then of course the standard network infection paths are open, so any worms might spread to your host this way; also you should be careful with files transferred from the VM to the host). Even better if your host and guest are different operating systems: Then only cross-platform malware can infect the host from the guest.