quickemu VS VBoxCloak

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui

(I've been using it for annual chores on windows)

[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...

Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.

Also: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues/88

Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)

In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.

VM will be shutdown automatically when it's inactive for a while. I will eventually add more distros going forward. Most distro isos are downloaded using the quickget script from the wonderful quickemu project. You may directly contribute to the upstream project to get the distro added to DistroSea.

If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu?

I wouldn't trust this rootkit, and I would definetly not install it on my own computer. I recommend reinstalling Windows since god knows what else could they add to this spyware (preventing you from shutting down your computer and breaking your C: drive isn't how a normal browser should behave), and trying to install this malware in VirtualBox hidden with some scripts like VBoxCloak or similar. The performance of the VM won't be excellent, but it's still better than running malicious software on your computer. If every way to hide the VM fails, I recommend at the very least buying a second drive specifically for CockDown Browser (it is hard to do with a laptop, but if this was a PC you would unplug your main driver from the computer, and plug only the infected drive if you want to boot into the ExclusionZoneOS), or better yet, buying a extra PC, isolated from your main network for extra security.

You can try this https://github.com/d4rksystem/VBoxCloak but make sure you make a snapshot of your VM before using it.

github/d4rksystem/VBoxCloak