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From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
To: bochnig@pool.math.tu-berlin.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] building a virus-proof PC with Qemu
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:00:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101218443.8458.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A33090.9080703@gmx.com>

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:44, Bochnig, Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> most of you know that: The easiest and most secure (100.00%) option 
> imaginable is to boot from cd/dvd and to keep the registry (in case of 
> m$-win) - or other files requiring write access - inside of a ramdrive.
> Works.

Yeah, if your cdrom is lacking write support, the BIOS flash chips are
write-protected and the CMOS memory is handled with care. And if you are
certain that the RAM is cleared during the boot phase. =)

Or you could boot over the network to a RAM disk. But could you trust
your network? The DHCP server, the default gateway?

/ magnus

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-23 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-23 12:31 [Qemu-devel] building a virus-proof PC with Qemu Piotras
2004-11-23 12:44 ` Bochnig, Martin
2004-11-23 14:00   ` Magnus Damm [this message]
2004-11-23 14:56   ` Magnus Damm
2004-11-23 15:19     ` Paul Brook
2004-11-23 17:37     ` Piotras
2004-11-23 21:20       ` Bochnig, Martin
2004-11-23 22:41         ` Karl Magdsick
2004-11-23 23:33           ` Magnus Damm
2004-11-23 12:46 ` Andreu Escudero
2004-11-23 13:41   ` Philipp Gühring
2004-11-23 14:38     ` Magnus Damm
2004-11-23 12:54 ` Paul Brook

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