[techtalk] request for ideas

Vinnie Surmonde drachen at george.he.net
Mon Oct 11 15:52:44 EST 1999


On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Wendt,Andrew wrote:

> This will happen regardless of whether you automount the floppy under Linux
> won't it?

<noddle>

the only major security thing I can think of regarding automounting
floppies would be boot sector viruses, except that I've never met a boot
sector virus for linux, so while that would be an issue (and a major
one...) under dos/win95/win98, but not linux

Vinnie
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