Question about virtual machines

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Diddums x

Diddums x

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I have a PC. This PC is used for browsing primarily. I'd like to have websites recognise it as an entirely different system without formatting it. Would a VM do this? I will be visiting these sites frequently so clearing cookies and whatnot isn't practical, I basically want to have two different systems for browsing on the same PC, so that when sites look at it, it looks like two different systems entirely.

Canny workey or am I missing something?


Cheers :)
 
Theres a profile manager in firefox and chrome which allow you to have mutiple logins on the same website. Don't know if thats what you're after.
 
Bluecube said:
That'll work just as you wish.
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Thank you kindly sir, much appreciated :)

jay0906 said:
Theres a profile manager in firefox and chrome which allow you to have mutiple logins on the same website. Don't know if thats what you're after.
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Unfortunately not, no. I need to give these websites the impression that it's two completely different systems. HOWEVER! I still wasn't aware of this feature, which I shall now use, so when I'm at work I don't get my wife's crap music suggested on Chrome :p
 
Diddums said:
Unfortunately not, no. I need to give these websites the impression that it's two completely different systems. HOWEVER! I still wasn't aware of this feature, which I shall now use, so when I'm at work I don't get my wife's crap music suggested on Chrome :p
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Haha fair play. But I don't think a VM will help you either then as I imagine you will be using the same internet connection and therefore have the same IP address. Invest in a VPN. They're dirt cheap these days and not to mention essential.
 
I "think" profile manager in firefox setup correctly would do it - but if you want a good degree of isolation a VM will work - for a long time (when internet explorer was the only real choice of browser) I used to browse only via a browser harnessed in a VM so as to protect the main machine against malware.
 
jay0906 said:
Haha fair play. But I don't think a VM will help you either then as I imagine you will be using the same internet connection and therefore have the same IP address. Invest in a VPN. They're dirt cheap these days and not to mention essential.
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Yep, I'll have to fork out for one I think, although I've heard mention of Hotspot Shield free being decent, if a little slow. I'll give that a shot first.

Rroff said:
I "think" profile manager in firefox setup correctly would do it - but if you want a good degree of isolation a VM will work - for a long time (when internet explorer was the only real choice of browser) I used to browse only via a browser harnessed in a VM so as to protect the main machine against malware.
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I need total isolation, this is a grey area with bookies and I'm going to set up some more accounts, hence why I can't having them recognizing the system (this isn't illegal or dodgy btw, it's common practise in the betting world and the only people who don't like it are the bookies).




Also, I've never run a VM before, so if anyone has any suggestions or ideas before I burn the house down, feel free to educate me :)
 
For that kind of use you might find a Linux "live CD" ISO useful as you can just mount it and go in a VM and it will be a completely new and fresh environment every time you start.
 
Perhaps kill 2 birds with one stone, use the free tier of AWS running one of the windows server editions and connect as a remote desktop. Shouldn't cost you anything and the IP address will likely be more unique than anything from a paid VPN. Plus less faff than running a local VM.
 
Think I saw you ask a similar question on a certain matched betting Facebook group earlier :p

Just use something like VirtualBox and an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2016 which is what I use. Then use any free or paid VPN which you use on the Virtual Machine.

The Amazon AWS suggestion above is also solid - removes the need for you to figure out how to set up the VM as Amazon deploy everything and you just RDC into it!
 
That AWS looks fantastic actually, I could log in to that anywhere! Fantastic suggestion, thanks!


And yes, that was me :D
 
beh said:
Perhaps kill 2 birds with one stone, use the free tier of AWS running one of the windows server editions and connect as a remote desktop. Shouldn't cost you anything and the IP address will likely be more unique than anything from a paid VPN. Plus less faff than running a local VM.
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From what I can tell, AWS is a new system every time I use it isn't it? That's not ideal sadly :(
 
No, that would only be if you created a new instance each time.

Just create one and leave it running. Free tier has you covered to do that.
 
Dynix said:
Think I saw you ask a similar question on a certain matched betting Facebook group earlier :p

Just use something like VirtualBox and an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2016 which is what I use. Then use any free or paid VPN which you use on the Virtual Machine.

The Amazon AWS suggestion above is also solid - removes the need for you to figure out how to set up the VM as Amazon deploy everything and you just RDC into it!
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Dynix, how did you get your VM to connect to the internet? I've got a Virtualbox set up with a copy of Windows 7 but I keep getting told I need to install the network adapter driver. Any ideas?
 
That's a Windows issue rather than a virtualbox one. Windows is asking for the driver for the network adapter. So you need to change the network adapter in the virtualbox settings to a network card that Windows already has inbuilt drivers for. If you use a Linux distro such as Mint it would probably work out of the box and I've never had an issue with network under virtualbox with any Linux distro.

A quick google suggests you could try setting the network adapter in the Virtualbox network settings for that guest to Intel E1000. I couldn't see an E1000 in my virtualbox settings but there are several other Intel adapters there. So Windows probably has inbuilt drivers for at least one of them. I'd suggest changing the virtualbox settings as follows:

1) Click Settings while the guest is highlighted.
2) Click on Network.
3) Make sure "Enable Network Adapter" is ticked.
4) Change "Attached to" to be "Bridged Adapter".
5) Then click on Advanced and change the "Adapter Type" to each of the options in the drop down. Try starting the client for each one until one works (most likely an Intel one should work).
 
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