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Yet...

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/white-house-budget-office-tells-agencies-to-draft-mass-firing-plans-ahead-of-potential-shutdown/

If anti-trust is still a thing after the next 3 years.

That AAAA to you!

You think this administration does any planning? They only have concepts of plans.

😱

And if any of it is true, they'll be the ones wondering why they didn't get taken because they're such good little christians.

The main settings that I mentioned are under integration services settings on the VM. There's probably plenty of guides available on YouTube for Hyper-V along with the official Microsoft documentation (which probably isn't that great).

Hyper-V is the hypervisor that the VM runs on. Yeah I don't really know which malware scanners are the go to ones anymore. Just figure if I can get it to pass through 2 different ones ok then it's probably ok. I'm sure there's some other good ones out there. I've heard of ESET and virustotal, but I'm not familiar.

I use Hyper-V because I run server 2022 and it's free. Hyper-V allows you to disable any host resource sharing in the VM settings.

On my sandbox VM I'll scan the files then install and scan, then run the software and scan. I use both defender and I think malwarebytes. It's a lot of extra work for no gain, but I'd rather be too careful than risk installing malware.

This is what I do. I have a VM for torrents and a VM sandbox to check stuff that I'm concerned about. At the host level I disable any type of sharing with the host, no copy paste, no sharing disks, nothing. The VM only gets the storage I assign to it and once I validate then I'll detach and mount it to the host.

I caved for the pro. I just carry a cheap Kershaw right now. Would be nice to have something light with multiple tools.