On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:01, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Nope, you still have to be carefull! > > > > I'm guessing that HarM means that the windows install could still > > be infected, and I guess that's so, but if you keep all the > > Internet activity to outside of windows you should be safe. The > > nice thing is that it is so easy to do. |I run Win4Lin almost > > full-screen, so that I can just see the status bar below it. I > > switch back and forth as often as necessary. I can keep my mail > > program open while I'm working on the windows app, and I feel > > quite safe. Of course, you still need to use common sense. No > > use inviting trouble ;-) > > > > Anne > > You're right, that is what I mean. > > Personally I like using win4lin for testing cross platform apps and > some games for the kids. > Alas lately I had to revive IExplorer because mozilla doesn't > handle the javascripts well, that my (online) bank uses. Frankly > Moz never has, where netscape (v4) did:o( > And the wonderful Calypso mailer for my (slow)GSM connection aboard > ship is another reason. Downloading messages selectively after > checking the headers is a real (financial) life saver. > > I think what linux will do, is stop a virus/trojan using stealthy > backdoors to get out and multiply or express itself. > Anyway it's easy enough to delete the "win" folder in the home > directory and replace it with a back up or a fresh one, if one > thinks it's infected:o)
Even better - if you do a tar of the win directory when you know all is installed and working well, it's as good as doing a partition image, so you can reinstall to exactly where you were very quickly. Anne
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