Bob George wrote: > > "Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the reasons dos will be around; you can partition or > > add a dos drive, and use it to store your own personal files > > and data which might be lost because of sabotage software. > > That applies to any unmounted or "hidden" partition on any OS of course.
> > Unless a Linux virus can get smart enough to mount a vfat, > > everything on it will be safe. > > Of course, if you insist on running as root for everything, it could just > take out the partition table. You'll notice those partitions show up just > fine if you run fdisk as root. Why wouldn't it zap the actual partitions > while it's up to it's mischief? I dont know what power sabotage software will come up with, and wont try to predict. The bets are, however, that the coders will focus on those operating systems which have the widest set of 'undocumented' features to work with. Dos is notoriously short of 'features' of any kind. > Your protection using *nix is to log in as a user with normal rights, not > superuser/root. > > > I dunno if there are windoz > > viruses that will find and affect a dos drive/partition. I > > would be a lot less surprised. > > If the drive is physically attached and your OS (or your usage of it) allows > direct access to the hardware, there's a threat. The access does not havta be automatic at boot, unless maybe with windoz recognizing all operational dos drives on the system. But MTOOLS and LTOOLS, allows a user to 'mount' a drive of another os when, and only when, he wants to make backup copies. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
