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

[Paul Arch]

Hi Harry,

 If its the utility I am thinking of, the ext2 partition isnt 'browsable' or
mounted all the time, I think you need to explicitly run the program to look
at your ext2 filesystem.

 Cheers,

 Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry McNally" <harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:35 PM
Subject: But Winders has Woims (was: Re: [plug] APC Magazine September)


> 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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