# Vista Service Pack 1/XP Service Pack 3

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**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-service-pack-1-xp-service-pack-3/196912 "2008-04-17T18:58:31Z")
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#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-service-pack-1-xp-service-pack-3/196912/20 "2008-04-18T15:40:15Z")

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> [@OFFICIAL Buffalo Sabres Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-thread/25170/6012):
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> this is in no way related to the vista/xpsp3 intent of the thread, but more so to the virtualization piece that popped up:
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> In any of the environments that have popped up have you been able to effectively monitor virtual to virtual network traffic? I was at a conference and this seems to be a bit of a security issue as, depending on virtual switch config, if a virtual box got owned, it could spread it’s payload to other virtual machines without tripping any IDS messages. Thoughts? New thread?
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> oh yeah, how do you deal with virus scan software? Is there a way in esx server to lock down the main hardware through the management console and just run one instance of the program on all subsequent vm’s? I don’t think there is, but I’m just starting to evaluate.

hit me up man.

the short of it is as follows:

monitoring virtual to virtual can be done easily… anything ‘sniffed’ at the os level would be easily seen, you can also monitor the switching of the servers within the virtual switch. network segmentation is easily achieved by trunking to the core and tagging each vswitch with the vlan… then it’s network layered traffic from virtual vlans on the host… essentially allowing the host to do your switching (trunked - duh 😉 )… ids and all existing captures would work as designed.

antivirus is effective through any instance as any physical endpoint… a lot of places run their antivirus on VM… just setup an av server as you normally would and run the clients to it… it’ll work just as it would physically.

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