Agreed. But that is why I deliberately don't duel boot and deliberately don't have Wine installed. I think that I am safe for those reasons.
-----Original Message----- Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mhvlug] email attachment warning number two Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:05:06 -0500 On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 08:26:48 pm Mark Wallace wrote: > But couldn't you, using Linux, drag and drop it by mistake to the > Windows partition and then, the next time that you booted Windows, click > on it not knowing what it was? Then it would run, I think. It would run on Linux too, assuming you have WINE installed. The best advice is to scrutinize emails that contain attachments, especially if they're executable -- and the best way to scrutinize email is to learn how to read email headers. This is something that can typically be of daily use. Also especially useful is learning how to use 'whois' on raw IP addresses to see that the original sender of email wasn't in the vicinity that the sender should have been. Remember that the "Received:" lines in email headers are in /reverse/ order; the last "Received:" line is actually the first one. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: mhvlug <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [mhvlug] email attachment warning number two > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:13:27 -0500 (EST) > > Which is why on my dualboot, there is both a windoze av and a linux av > package. > > Only the ntfs partition is accessible to both sides. > > :) > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, [email protected] wrote: > > If you are dual booting Linux and Windows, you might have more problems > > than anybody because your Windows anti-virus software might not be > > scanning your Linux partition. If you opened it in Linux and later move > > it over to the Windows partition, it could do some damage. I don't know, > > but I am worried. > > > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Feb 2 - Zimbra > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Feb 2 - Zimbra > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 2 - Zimbra Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 2 - Zimbra Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6
