well yes, but if you are on an internal network..
you might want to limit your filesharing as well..

Many virus's now will copy themselves to any network share
that the infected computer had access to.

rgds

Franki
http://htmlfixit.com


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I see.   Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books
etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly
immune?

Bob

Frankie wrote:
> No...
>
> A virus is just a program like any other..
>
> If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a
> virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was
running
> on its own.
>
> The only difference is that it can't trash your linux
> install.
> can still trash the windows install though..
>
> As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't
> run
> in win4lin windows it would be useless...
>
> regards
>
> Franki
> http://htmlfixit.com
>




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