Quote from: btcgoods on January 18, 2014, 08:52:27 AM

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Quote from: BBQminter on January 18, 2014, 08:31:09 AM

You should consider keeping your important (e.g. bitcoin/litecoin/namecoin/etc) wallets on one virtual machine, and running new/shady alts in another. I'm actually surprised more people don't do this, as it would prevent 99% of the theft incidents I've seen.

Never use either of those virtual machines to browse the web or do anything else outside of working with those wallets. Never install any software that you don't absolutely need on them.

And my dumb ass have VMs and I'm not doing this.

This is great advice, thanks

No problem. Be sure to back up these VMs regularly as well. It might save you a lot of trouble some day, and creating a backup of a virtual machine is as easy as it gets.

What's a good VM to use and where do you get a free win install for VM's? I remember doing it a while back and there was a free ISO given by Microsoft, but not quite sure.

I'd suggest running Ubuntu rather than Windows on the VMs. I'd suggest Debian or some other Linux distro, but I'm making the assumption since you're looking for a windows VM that you aren't too familiar with Linux.