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My understanding is that if you share anything from VM to your computer you can get infected. I would use MSE on the VM.
My understanding is that if you share anything from VM to your computer you can get infected. I would use MSE on the VM.
I am a bit concerned that using MSE in VM would conflict with KIS on my host computer.
I am not familiar with VM's. I think of it as two hdd's with different OS's on each. If that is an accurate example then having MSE on the VM and KIS on the host machine should not present any problems of conflict.
What are your thoughts on that?
Actually you can think of it as two different computers, each with their own HD and OS. :)
So no, there should be no conflict between MSE and KIS just as there is obviously no conflict between the two
operating systems running in tandem.
I have some difficulties to understand this statement. A virtual machine is like any other computer, a physical or a virtual one. So, this is almost the same than saying (modified your statement a bit):Of course there are different opinions on the importance of AV-protection and Firewall. Some people do not use any, some try to set their computers up as tightly protected as Fort Knox. Me, personally I like to stay on the safe side, using Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Firewall on every rig I have, on real physical ones as well as on virtual machines. This combination gives quite a comprehensive protection, at least I have been satisfied and never had any infection problems.I wouldn't worry too much about running an antivirus on your other computers actually, since your main system is already protected.
Because a virtual machine acts and behaves like any other individual computer on your network, it does not have to have the same AV-protection than other computers but it needs some (personal opinion, as mentioned above). You can have Norton on XP Mode, Avira on your main rig, MSE on a Windows Vista virtual machine and so on.
Kari
Last edited by Kari; 17 Oct 2011 at 09:23.
You could just use Microsoft security essentials, it is free and is worth it if you are worried
....... alternatively you can simply disable the security warning in XP.
How do I disable this annoying baloon "Your system may be at risk" on VirtualBox?
Flores
I can't seem to find a tutorial here for that, so I suggest reading this from how to geek
If there is one of our own tutorials please let me know, anyone.
I run MSE in all of my VMs that run Windows client OSes. I'm not sure why someone would think there's a conflict between that and the AV on the host. That would defeat the very purpose of virtualizing.