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by Santosh83 2329 days ago
> And it's not hard to fix, really. All you need is firewall rules that allow only the Tor process to access the Internet. That's doable with Windows Firewall. But I've never seen anything about that on the Tor Project site.

Generally malware on the local system is nearly always game over. There's little you can do about it without wiping the system. But other than that I suppose the Tor project could give more visibility and advocacy for both Whonix and Tails, as they provide better system-wide protection than the Tor Browser can do. As you say, neither of those well known projects are mentioned anywhere easily locatable on their site.

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I agree that malware means game over. But firewall rules at least protect against wimpy malware.

And yes, I really don't know why they haven't embraced Whonix.

What's funny is that Tails has more visibility, and it's actually less effective against malware. Because there's no isolation between userland and the Tor client.