Basic User Securities

Recommended and optional

Whonix Gateway - acts as a gateway to directing all traffic through the Tor network Whonix Workstation - this is where we work as a user. It is located on a completely isolated network

Virtual Box + Whonix Gateway & Workstation

Download and install the Virtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org

Download Whonix for Virtual Box - https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download

Open the virtualbox and select File > Import

Select the downloaded file (.ova)

We imported the gateway and the workstation'

Now run the Whonix-Gateway-Xfce and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the setup. Now we need to update our Whonix Gateway

Open terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

After the upgrade is complete, run Whonix-Workstation-Xfce and we'll do the same thing

Open terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get-update-plus dist-upgrade

You will be asked for your password on updates. The default password is 'changeme'

Changing default password

sudo su

enter 'changeme' and change it to yours

Now your workstation is now configured to work in isolation on the Tor network

Virtual Box + Whonix Gateway + Windows

Download and install the Virtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org

Download Whonix for Virtual Box - https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download

Download any Windows image (ico)

In virtual box click on New and add your Windows image (ico)

Click next and follow the prompts

TOR routing on windows machine

Select installed windows machine and click on settings

Network section. Choose and whonix as a network adapter and save it

Now run the Whonix-Gateway-Xfce and after our installed Windows and change the adapter property

Set the adapter settings as on the screen

Now our virutal Windows machine will only work through the Tor network (check it on https://check.torproject.org)

All installed programs will have access to the Internet only through TOR

In case of connection failure, the traffic inside the machine does not flow anywhere