[ctb_mg]

These browser vulnerabilities have got me thinking that I should start browsing in a VM. Has anyone moved to this level of isolation? Steve Gibson on the last Security Now podcast said he's been experimenting with Sandboxie...

Sandboxie looks like a paid closed source solution, I'm not sure they give me a compelling value proposition over something like a light linux distro under VirtualBox.

[Nexxxeh]

I was for a while, using a W7 VM on VirtualBox. I hooked it up to the VPN interface so that if the VPN dropped, I wasn't leaking traffic and it couldn't access the local network or host machine without significant difficulty.

It was initially for minimising the risk of false positives while testing remote access from the network I was on at the time.

Probably not enough to be hacking NSA, but it quickly added layer of protection from leaking stuff.