On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 13:26, Karthik Balaguru wrote: > Since cygwin is a windows utility that provides linux environment. > What is the probability of the linux environment to get infected by > virus ?
Hello Karthik, I don't entirely understand your question - are you asking whether a Windows virus infection can affect files manipulated by Cygwin on that same system? I would imagine the answer is yes if Cygwin is using standard OS facilities to read/write files. Or are you asking about viruses targeted at Cygwin specifically? Or are you asking about the vulnerability of Cygwin to Linux-targeted viruses (of which there aren't very many)? -- David. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
