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) -- Good luck, HarM
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