You can mount non-Win4Lin directories as drives in Win4Lin so that files are available to both Win4Lin, Linux, and/or dual-boot systems. I do that so that my data drive is available to Linux, Win4Lin, and XP which I dual-boot to on occasion to play games. (Win4Lin makes a default drive D: Mydata that is just a folder in your Linux home directory called mydata.)
If you ran some virus code in Win4Lin that wiped drives or destroyed data randomly, your data from on the mounted filesystems would be at risk. But yes, the best thing to do to minimize such risk is perform all e-mail and Internet activity on the Linux side. Miark On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:57:38 -0400, Bob Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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