On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 Jul 2008, indianathan n wrote: > >> 1. Use our pen drive in normal user instead of root for safe >> operation. > > This is pretty much standard now. When you pop in the drive Gnome/KDE > pop up file managers with the drive mount on /media/<something>.
I believe XFCE does it too. And for other window managers, you could use ivman to achieve the same. > Recently, I helped a colleague to create a PDF version of his OO > presentation so that he could give his talk at a workshop (OO version > at workshop premise was 1.x and would not open his 2.x file). He > warned me that the pen drive had been hooked up to promiscous desktops. > Upon insertion, Ubuntu presented the file manager. I believe there was > an autorun.inf which copied a whole bunch of <directory>.exe in my home > directory. It was like Whoa! The point is that some of the virii have > started recognizing a Linux desktop and use Linux utils to install > themselves. Fortunately, they were windows exe and I removed them. Was the desktop running wine? There's this thread going on, on ubuntuforums, where people have managed to get windows virus to work upto variable extents using wine. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
