With client diffusion on windows platform how to prevent spyware risk in term of privacy violation?

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Published on 2010-06-05T11:16:52Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 11:22 UTC
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Often we think that an antivirus or similar is more than sufficient, but many clients could accomplish so many processes that it would be more safe having a real sandbox environment like unix like OS.

Better virtual machine like VMWare, VirtualBox and similar sandabox, or there are better ways to keep safe our privacy?

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