> OTOH, a microsoft-specific virus like iloveyou could work - if it only
An interesting thought I suppose, if you're using Windows email tools.
> relies on commonly available stuff and does not attempt to do anything
> to the file system.
If it doesn't do anything to my file system what's it going to do?
> I typically disable all virus checking on linux boxes and never open
> email in windows....
I haven't asked this question here but since you sound like you manage
this kind of stuff, I've got to ask. Why would anyone run a Linux
system and then use Windows email/web tools? Given the availability
of decent firewall protection in native Linux, it would make more
sense to use it. Maybe more to the point, if you're going to do most
of your activity in Win4Lin, why run Linux at all?
Please accept this as a question, not a criticism. I just don't
understand the circumstances where you'd want to run Linux and then
spend all your time in Win4Lin. I need Word and my CAD program to
function under Linux and I only need Word for those clients I have
that require lots of graphics imbedding and precision text-formatting
delivered in MS Word format. I wouldn't think of running a browser or
mailtool in Win4Lin. Your suggestion that MS macro-viruses may be a
problem is just one more reason not to do so :-)
Cheers --- Larry
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