Surf a lot safer method, a must read if you don't want spyware/adware and other junk.

Vmware has released a virtual machine package, intended to use with Ubuntus striped Linux version with Mozilla browser. I've tried it out on a RHES 4 workstation and it works like a charm out of the box.

Just install vmaplayer and the browserapp and you're set to go. The setup will as a with all vmware virtual machines setup a private network for your virtual machine, besides that, just answer a few questions about
paths and the virtual machine will boot up with the /usr/sbin/vmplayer command.

This should be very usefull for all sys admins who care about not catching malware while browsing with
admin rights on their machine. Especially Windows Administrators, would be able to drop the Terminal Server
workaround. Unix/Linux users would probably go home free anyway, but we don't know what the future of malicous code front will have to offer for the GNU world.

$ /usr/bin/vmplayer

A simple startup script for vmplayer could be located in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Just add the line /usr/bin/vmplayer
before the line touch /var/lock/subsys/local. At every boot up, this script will run the vmplayer command, and start up the virtual machine.

Go get it now! Don't forget to read the manuals fella surfer.

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

ALX

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