[thinkmassive]

> there's absolutely no protection against malware (or anything else, for that matter) reaching the Internet directly, and so bypassing Tor.

This is where something like Whonix[1] is helpful. You’re right that torproject.org doesn’t mention this issue much at all with regard to Tor Browser usage. On the other hand, the warnings are fairly obvious in the TorifyHOWTO[2] section.

[1] https://www.whonix.org/

[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWT...

[mirimir]

Yes, I should have mentioned Whonix. It's the only sane way to use Tor.

And about the TorifyHOWTO, the dumbed-down website redesign has made that stuff even harder to find than it was before.