it certainly seems that way. I was pretty surprised to.----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] querey regarding dual booting
My word! So even using NAT in the virtual machine a virus can still travel?-- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Join TAFN by visiting www.tafn.org.uk----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy" <[email protected]>To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] querey regarding dual bootingWell, the bad thing is, if a virus or what ever has the ability to travel through the network, then, it still can infect your host machine, even if it's running in virtual. You can of corse firewall your virtual machine, and probably be ok but I watched it happen on a persons machine just a few days ago with a game she had downloaded, for free of corse and it infected the hell out of the vm she was running it on, next thing she knew, her host was also showing signs of beeing infected by the same thing and her antivirus started lighting off on it on both sides. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[email protected]>To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] querey regarding dual bootingRichard and all, using operating systems in a virtual environment is more secure because what you do in the virtual environment is completely isolated from the host, meaning viruses and the like can't attack your host and vice versa. Hope this helps.-- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Join TAFN by visiting www.tafn.org.uk----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Justice" <[email protected]>To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] querey regarding dual bootingHi Shikher, You should get your heart set on something else, because you are not going to be able to hide those partitions.Even if you could, you will need to make them shown again, before shuttingdown the computer. The computer cannot boot from a partition it can't see.If you are wanting to avoid infections, then run a good security softwaresuite, and change your e-mail and internet surfing habits.Most computer viruses are contracted as a result of installing software fromless than well-known sites, and opening e-mail messages from people you don't know. If you are going to have a dual, or multi-boot system, you will need to make sure that each operating system is protected by security software while in use. The only other way I can think of to use other operating systems on one machineis to install them in a virtual environment, within a host operating system.I can't speak to that type of arrangement, since I have never tried it, and so I don't know what the security concerns would be. HTH, Richard Q. Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com----- Original Message ----- From: "shikher goyal" <[email protected]>To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:15 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] querey regarding dual booting hello to all hope all are fine as subject line shows that i've little querey regarding dual booting. in my lapi, there are four drives(c:, d:, e:,f:) and configuration is also suitable for dual booting. now come to the point, i want two drives i.e. c: and e: for XP and d:, f: for vista. i don't want to show d: and f:(vista's partitions) while i'm in XP and similar during running vista not to show XP's two partitions to avoid infecting both OS files from virus if virus comes during work in one OS. and to keep data private.i want two- two partitions one for instaling OS and second for keeping data.actually i had both XP and vista instaled at my laptop previously but due to virus infection at my both drives which had XP and vista, i had to reinstall. now i'm running XP only. that's whyy.... i think i've cleared my querey. with regards shikher goyal For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit:http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
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