Virtualization...More Than System Drive?

[Ed_H]

I have been looking at adding either Returnil or Shadow Defender and both work well in my setup (DefenseWall & Avira Premium). Is it enough to protect just the system partition or should all partitions be virtualized? How likely is it that malware could damage my data partition?

[innerpeace]

I guess it may depend on what you do with your system. If you engage in risky activities then protection/virtualization of your non-system partitions is a good idea. For example, there are times when I specifically surf risky sites and or submit malware to companies. I would like something protecting my other partitions during those particular sessions and reboot when finished to continue normal activities.

AFAIK, Returnil is working on some sort of protection for non-system partitions. I have no idea how strong the protection will be or how it works.

[Peter2150]

When I shadow my system I use Shadow Defender to shadow all my drives. Amazingly it even shadows my VM located on the d: drive, and that thing is huge. The directory is almost 55gb.

I do this is I play with Malware in the VM machine, and that way I know my host is protected.

Pete

[Ed_H]

Peter2150 and innerpeace,

Thanks for the replies...

At least for the moment, Returnil can only do the system drive. So, that pretty much narrows it down to SD I guess.

[TechOutsider]

Returnil 2.1 beta works on all the drives/partitions. For me, it's been stable.

[Ed_H]

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I tried it...liked the features a lot but lots of BSOD's. Mike said they were working on a new release a few weeks ago. Maybe I'll sit tight for a while with Returnil 2.0 and see if there is a new beta relatively soon.