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Cygwin/X and viruses
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| If I were to run Cygwin on my Windows system would I be more prone, less
prone, or the same to computer viruses when surfing the internet.
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| Bill Marcum 2007-12-13, 7:33 am |
| On 2007-12-13, don <don@panix.com> wrote:
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> If I were to run Cygwin on my Windows system would I be more prone, less
> prone, or the same to computer viruses when surfing the internet.
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The same, unless you surf with a text mode browser like lynx, which
doesn't do Java, javascript or Active X.
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| Todd H. 2007-12-13, 1:24 pm |
| "don" <don@panix.com> writes:
> If I were to run Cygwin on my Windows system would I be more prone, less
> prone, or the same to computer viruses when surfing the internet.
About the same.
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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| AZ Nomad 2007-12-14, 7:22 pm |
| On 13 Dec 2007 12:14:50 -0600, Todd H. <comphelp@toddh.net> wrote:
>"don" <don@panix.com> writes:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>About the same.
A cygwin browser won't be able to install viruses with the extreme ease that
internet explorer makes possible. It won't find the windows system files
exposed starting in c:\windows as cygwin creates a virtual directory structure
with the windows files over in /cygdrive/c/windows.
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| Todd H. 2007-12-15, 1:41 am |
| AZ Nomad <aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> writes:
> On 13 Dec 2007 12:14:50 -0600, Todd H. <comphelp@toddh.net> wrote:
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> A cygwin browser won't be able to install viruses with the extreme ease that
> internet explorer makes possible. It won't find the windows system files
> exposed starting in c:\windows as cygwin creates a virtual directory structure
> with the windows files over in /cygdrive/c/windows.
Of course using IE makes you an easier target, so that's not a fair
comparison.
Is there even a gui cygwin browser though that leverages X? THere may
be, but I've not seen one. You could use mozilla on a separate nix
machine and display it on your desktop using X, but if you're going to
that trouble, may as well use a virtual machine anyway.
lynx of course is there for the text-mode novelty and is sometimes
useful, but hell, may as well use wget or curl and make the fun
complete. :-)
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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