[dba-Tech] Interesting software

Another way to protect your machine:

I just bought a new laptop on Friday ( Core 2 Duo 2.4, 4GB Ram, 320GB Hard drive).
I've spent the last two days getting it set up including copying everything over from my old 
laptop and re-installing software.( and I'm not finished yet) 

First thing I did was instal VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/  

Then I set up a clean virtual machine running XP Pro and installed Firefox and a few utilities 
that I use all the time. I cloned that a few times and set up one with Office 2003 and one with 
Office 2007, one with Visual Studio and kept one as a clean box.  

Now I can do all my surfing, downloading  and software development and testing in any one 
of the virtual machines.  If something goes wrong, I can either roll it back or just dump the 
whole thing and clone a new one.   It's brilliant.

 -- 
Stuart 


On 29 Nov 2008 at 21:33, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> 
> Hi All:
> 
> Here is an interesting piece of software. This product is supposed to
> protect your system from rogue applications. According to my son-in-law the
> app has been running on Linux for years but now it has made a move to
> Windows.
> 
> This might be an application for those concerned about viruses and malware
> and other disruptive products on your system: http://www.sandboxie.com/ . It
> comes highly recommended.
> 
> Jim
> 
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