Virtualization...More Than System Drive?

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?

 

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 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.

 

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

 

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.