4 Sep
2003
4 Sep
'03
02:38
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 07:18, zentara wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:26:16 +0100
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? Windows doesn't even know that Linux is there and they are different filesytems, FAT32 vs ext3. Mine are even on different hard drives. 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. Bob S.