On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:18:02PM -0700, Peter Campbell wrote:
> I run Windows in a Time Machine backed-up Virtual Machine (VMWare
> Fusion) on my Mac. If I get infected, I can blow away the VM and
> restore from an earlier point with very little disruption.

This requires:
* pinpointing when the infection occurred
* patching the backed up system so that infection does not reoccur
* having a sufficient amount of backup space for VMs

I personally do not backup VMs. It takes up way too much space. Plus,
Parallels and VMWare Fusion have shared folders so that you can keep all
your data on the Mac side and just open files via VM. I think it would be
less work to create one "standard and patched" VM that you could revert to
rather than eat up processing power and storage space for every VM backup.
Since old versions can get discarded, you could end up with only infected
VMs.

Also, some people might point out that Windows System Restore has some
kind of usefulness here. However, I always turn off System Restore since
I've only ever encoutered machines where the restore points themselves were
harboring viruses and P2P files.

> "sudo find / -name ".signature" -exec rm -f {} \; -print"
> That seems like a lot of work to do in order to not print your
> signature. Does this work on free email services that append 'em for
> you? Or just the ones that allow sudo with no password? ;-)

Is has no functionality unless you want to blow away your .signature
file by copy and pasting into your own terminal. It simply allows me to
have a signature without really having one.

Victor