All i have in my home is the gaming pc, and the laptop, thats the only thing the network is used for.To be blunt, if you do virus testing on your laptop, you should be telling us how to protect the rest of the network before you start thinking you can test.
The laptop is airgapped. Absolutely no connection, ethernet or WiFi, to the rest of the local LAN.basically i do virus testing on my laptop
is there any extra steps i can take to protect my main gaming rig (connected with ethernet) from anything that may spread via network?
also can a rat access another pc through network
There are viruses that can jump across the VM line. There may also be file shares in play that will let a virus escape. A physically isolated environment is the only way to be doing anything like this.it would seem much easier to do any malware testing on a VM, be that within HyperV (available on Windows Pro), VMWare Workstation Player, or VirtualBox, ...
Restoring a VM is much easier than nuking and paving a laptop....
There also some that will detect the markers of being in a VM, and shut itself down so you can't fully investigate.There are viruses that can jump across the VM line. There may also be file shares in play that will let a virus escape. A physically isolated environment is the only way to be doing anything like this.
basically i do virus testing on my laptop
is there any extra steps i can take to protect my main gaming rig (connected with ethernet) from anything that may spread via network?
also can a rat access another pc through network
it would seem much easier to do any malware testing on a VM, be that within HyperV (available on Windows Pro), VMWare Workstation Player, or VirtualBox, ...
Restoring a VM is much easier than nuking and paving a laptop....
There also some that will detect the markers of being in a VM, and shut itself down so you can't fully investigate.
And back to the OP's original question:
"is there any extra steps i can take to protect my main gaming rig (connected with ethernet) from anything that may spread via network? "
Fully airgapped.
No ethernet cable, no WiFi, no connection with any other physical box.