--- Mike Hearn mh@codeweavers.com wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:45 -0800, Hiji wrote:
That said, the JDS does a lot of stuff for you.
By
default, it automounts windows partitions so
basically
anyone can write to them (root or not). In this
case,
with this specific distro, a virus would have
write
access to that partition. I don't mount anything,
the
distro does...
Yeah, but there's no point in exaggerating this. Is it a technical possibility with some setups? Yes. Have I ever heard of it happening? No.
No exaggeration intended here; I understood this thread was following a hypothetical scenerios. My appologies. I was trying to raise awareness about a default entry-point on a specific distro. I was in the mindset that its better to share this information to not share it at all.
Hiji
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