I was wondering about that. Can you even *get* Windoze file system drivers for the common Linux file systems such as ext3? I hope not, for exactly this reason. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Give someone fire, and they can cook for a day. Set someone on fire, and they will cook for a lifetime. --- anonymous
> Except you COMPLETELY missed the fact that Microsoft Windows, by default, > has ZERO write access to anything but NTFS and FAT. > > Now, infected Wubi.EXE, that's different. Many viruses target EXE files > but a seperate partition is a no-go. > > > --- On Tue, 2/24/09, Dave Compton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Dave Compton <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Eug-lug] Re: Linux Ubuntu Install Tutorial >> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 8:37 PM >> I think the greater danger is from dual booting windows >> & linux (with or without wubi). An infected windows >> machine could write malware directly to the unbooted linux >> partition. This would be both an easier way of spreading an >> infection and more effective since *any* windows/linux >> system would be vulnerable to it - not just those that were >> installed via wubi. >> >> In fact, even the generic dual boot vulnerability seems >> like a pretty convoluted way to spread malware. Once you >> have control of a windows machine, the thing to do would be >> to *use* that windows machine to carry out your evil plot - >> not try to infect an unused linux partition in the hope that >> it might someday be booted. The windows -> wubi -> >> linux risk seems even lower. >> >> Once the wubi install process is complete you *do* end up >> with a linux system that, at a low level, piggybacks off of >> the windows boot system to work. It bothers me too but just >> as a matter of principle - not for security reasons. >> >> - Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
