My apologies for this silly, silly question. I am concerned of the risk of malware infection in shared machines.
I guess that harddrive-less units are totally OK, but what happens in normal, hard-drive based machines if somehow a stick gets infected? when booting from a USB stick, is it like when booting from a CD or for those old enough to remember, like booting from a floppy? I mean, that was THE way to get infected before Word macros started being the star, since such infection basically bypass all anti-malware protection, except when set at the BIOS level, and how many people knew about it in my younger days? How can we ensure this is not an issue made worse by Soas users? Opinions and knowledge, anyone? Thanks! Yama _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
