4 Sep
2003
4 Sep
'03
03:11
The biggest danger is if you have a dual boot with windows and linux. If you boot into windows, and it finds and runs a virus, it can damage anything on your disk. If the linux kernel isn't running, your linux system isn't protected.
Whoa !! Are you saying that in a dual boot system a windows virus can infect the Linux partitions?
Not infect, damage.
Please tell us a little more. My Win 98 system is a mess, no virus protection, nothing, and don't really care. Only keep it to run a few games and some Flight Planning software.
Best hope you don't get some malware which does an 'fdisk' (or whatever Windows uses to wipe the disk partition table). --
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