• @Roderik
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    -410 months ago

    Yes and no. If the VM has network access you can still royally fuck yourself. Also, it’s possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability—that way it may still infect your host machine.

    More often than not VMs may protect you, but it’s no guarantee.

    • @[email protected]
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      1910 months ago

      it’s possibe your virtualisation software has a vulnerability

      If you’re that paranoid I don’t know why you’re running an executable whose source code you haven’t checked in the first place.

      • @RightHandOfIkaros
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        1410 months ago

        Or even connecting to the Internet in the first place.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            510 months ago

            Or even accepting electricity from outside your home in the first place.

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                210 months ago

                Come to think of it, allowing yourself to be born is hella risky…