-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 September 2003 06:10 am, zentara wrote: - -----------snip----------------
Also, you know not to run "defrag" in windows, when you have a dual boot with linux. Many a linux system has been messed up by defrag.
Although I commiserate w/ those who have had this problem its not been my experience. Perhaps the problems are limited to specific m$ versions or filesystems. I have a multi boot system which is occasionally called upon to run win98. I've never had a problem on my other operating systems caused by defragmenting win98. There are 4 or 5 win partitions spread about my 2 drives (alongside 6 other bootable operating systems), they were all defragged about 10 days ago w/ no problem. I also have win4lin but have never had the nerve to run defrag there (no sense pushing my luck)
It's also becoming possible, for very clever trojans to be introduced into linux, from running windows. Say for instance, a clever windows hacker wrote a virus which scanned linux partitions for libc.so.6 and modified it somehow. Then everytime you ran a program back in linux, you could be spreading something injected by windows.
The lesson? Do not have dual boots with windows, if you need security. Dual boots are risky business.
-- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
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