Need little advise on VM please

[avior]

my question is VM safe 1 have a pc with windows 10 running which does everything browsing to download to playing games to online search
then i have switch the turn off hard drive and turn on a diffent hard drive for my person and private work liking banking paying online bills etc hence nothing else is done on that drive.

now my question is can i run a VM within the first hard drive where i do everything and then open a VM to do my personal work and pay bills and banking etc is it safe or do i just leave as is

thanks

 

[voyagerfan99]

It will be less work to do it as a vm.

 

[avior]

It will be less work to do it as a vm.

bit lost on what you mean ?

 

[voyagerfan99]

bit lost on what you mean ?

Set it up as a VM and use that instead of swapping disks every time you want to change what you are doing.

 

[avior]

Set it up as a VM and use that instead of swapping disks every time you want to change what you are doing.

so would you consider it as safe thing to do because i do banking pay bill log into my gas electric phone to pay bill etc

 

[beers]

Depends on your definition of safe, nothing is going to guarantee that you don't make silly decisions.

 

[Couriant]

Basically a VM is a software version of what you are physically doing. The advantage is that you don't need to switch off one for the other because it will be on your desktop. Also, it is contained so unless you make the VM seeable from the main computer, then you should be OK as long as you don't go clicking on suspectable links within the VM.

If you are doing basic stuff like banking, then you won't even need a big VM.

 

[avior]

Basically a VM is a software version of what you are physically doing. The advantage is that you don't need to switch off one for the other because it will be on your desktop. Also, it is contained so unless you make the VM seeable from the main computer, then you should be OK as long as you don't go clicking on suspectable links within the VM.

If you are doing basic stuff like banking, then you won't even need a big VM.

Thank you for your reply just one more question say if my computer had some sort of virus on it then i had open up VM would the virus infect the VM within also if i have antivirus install on the main PC would that help in anyway within VM or would i have to install antiviruse in the VM as well
many thanks

 

[voyagerfan99]

Thank you for your reply just one more question say if my computer had some sort of virus on it then i had open up VM would the virus infect the VM within also if i have antivirus install on the main PC would that help in anyway within VM or would i have to install antiviruse in the VM as well
many thanks

They are completely separate systems. The virus will not transfer from the host PC to the VM.

 

[avior]

They are completely separate systems. The virus will not transfer from the host PC to the VM.

ThankYou for your Reply is it worth putting a antivirus on VM machine for Banking purpose ?

 

[voyagerfan99]

Windows Defender should be good enough

 

[avior]

Windows Defender should be good enough

many thanks