But Winders has Woims (was: Re: [plug] APC Magazine September)

Harry McNally harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au
Thu Aug 21 19:35:18 WST 2003


On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:13:48 +0800 "Daniel Pearson" <gpearson at iinet.net.au>
wrote:

> There is also a program on the CD, that allows access to ext2 partitions
> from a Windows install.

Call me Mr Paranoid if you like, but isn't it a bit silly exposing your
secure Linux partitions to every virus and worm that Windows "accomodates" ?
Or do the mal-meisters write Linux FS access methods into their payloads
anyway ?

All the best
Harry

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