To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

[Michael Butash]

Since microsoft seems to insist on keeping their browsers perpetually 
vulnerable for the government to exploit, seems sandboxing is about the 
only way to keep it from infecting your os.  A full vm just to keep ie 
from infecting you though?

Why not just NOT use IE?  It's really not common anymore I hit those 
stupid IE-only things, maybe once a year.

Side note, was looking at docker for the same thing under linux, seems 
people are doing this, sandboxing even desktop functions into a 
container, which I'm liking the notion of!

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/

-mb


On 04/20/2016 09:39 AM, Nathan England wrote:
>
> Microsoft provides versions of IE ready to go for VirtualBox. You 
> select which version of IE you want and the version of Windows to 
> emulate and they give you a zip file.
>
> 1) Download the zip
> 2) Extract the zip
> 3) Open VirtualBox and Import Appliance
>
> The images expire after 90 days. When that is up you delete the 
> virtual machine and import another one. So don't delete your .zip file.
>
> https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/linux/