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I have a Windows XP Pro dual booting with Ubuntu Jaunty Jackelope on a single hard drive. On Windows XP I have a Eset NOD 32 while on Ubuntu I have no antivirus installed.
While working on the internet via Ubuntu, if a virus gets into my PC, it might probably not do much damage to Ubuntu as most of these virus' are designed for windows however I'm still worried that they may continue to reside on my Ubuntu partition...
- and since I am working in dual boot mode ( not sharing any partitions at the moment) will the virus affect the windows partition?
- Alternatively since I am using a thumb drive to transfer data between Ubuntu and Win XP the virus might propogate through the flash drive?
Can I stop the virus from entering the system via Ubuntu and how?
Hmm! the system is working in this mode currently but I have other pc's (Windows) networked to mine and I don't want to risk getting a virus on my Ubuntu partition.. so what can I do to bar the virus? – Kevin Boyd – 2009-10-06T06:51:17.643
Well, currently what I do is restart each time I want to cross over to another system (Ubuntu or Windows)... so do I need to expose some part of the partion to trasnfer files on to the other... how do I do that ? – Kevin Boyd – 2009-10-06T07:10:04.017
1Well, I have a similar setup as you. I dual boot Windows and Mac OS X, but I haven't really bothered much with viruses. Both Mac OS and Linux can read and write NTFS partitions with a bit of work (in Mac OS you need ntfs3g and MacFuse, in Linux I think ntfs3g is enough). I have no antivirus on Mac OS X, but I use one in Windows (I use Microsoft Security Essentials). This setup is really more than enough; there's no need to worry that much. – alex – 2009-10-06T07:17:16.140
1Instead of ClamAV, one can use AVG Linu which was free when I used it 6 months ago. It is too on demnad so no waste of resource. – Ganesh R. – 2009-10-06T09:17:44.947