Ill ask another question here. Is having dual boot Windows 10 (or 7 or 8) and Linux a security risk? Will malicious Windows programs gain access to Linux files (files in the Linux partition?)? Does GPT help here? thanks,
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017, at 09:31 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Long Wind wrote: > > i have Windows XP and Linux on one diskis there any XP virus that can > > spread to linux? > > Thanks! > > > Generally no, given that Windows and Linux use different executable > formats. That being said, you can still spread infected files around -- > that is, if you download an infected file under linux, when you try to > open it under windows, it'll infect your windows install. > > That being said, Windows XP should be banned from any form of external > communications -- it's quite dead and forgotten by Microsoft. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaLz9TAAoJEI4R3fMSeaKBOfIH/3Tkpl+JcIx4lMe/MvnxcrZw > ehhxqkRNlBsYEbUAB0RLsn080rxYCSSDH049RdjZfmiouDGpLL/4YOhQb/Clg8dv > 0Tnm5FViOZfNukYPO+9yHkVNgrhwI4T5a9FcnhH84xM1xFQODHxXGyc5q1/ZZiH7 > hbSXqWUMzCZMmg5du41LaOvlK6s3NLN+keIpseLU0v4m0NWlrxMnI7CB+1d9KgNk > VZFmRiV8qtRbS2s7w9NzwxYop1j2/aN04+wtMQvQHYJfMF45kVchaSp/LuINKCH8 > /BAeOJ+nrg2v40CQPQEsHBI6gTFgpu0AzPii2YmgsPDS+Fr0C63UxwWglziBcE0= > =p04g > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 > |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert > |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 >