Ok so as we all know, viruses mostly come through nasty websites and especially the ads on said websites. Those pesky java scripts and such.
With my scare from Ransomeware, I've decided that for my daily web browsing, I'll use a linux distro and for my gaming, I'll use windows.
The first solution would seem to be dual boot but that's a pain, forcing me to completely shut down one OS to jump tasks and I'm not going that route.
The second is just linux with wine and ect... but that is unstable or doesn't offer the same quality FPS (especially with my card).
So what I've settled on (unless someone has a better idea) is linux in a virtual machine. Without a direct connection to any windows files, any nasty java script should fail in the linux box and even IF it succeeded in doing something, it wouldn't be able to access my windows OS.
So, does anyone have any suggestions for a nice, light weight OS I can run in a virtual machine and allow for all the flash and java I could want? And with recent browsers? I don't want to use firefox 3.0.