On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:12 AM, David Antliff <david.antl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Yeah, You are Correct. My actual question was related to this query. I was eager to know if the files touched by cygwin(Linux environment) would get infected due to an virus in Windows system ? > > Or are you asking about viruses targeted at Cygwin specifically? > This is other thought that i had in my mind while thinking about protecting files in linux environment(Cygwin) against that of windows. Is it possible ? > Or are you asking about the vulnerability of Cygwin to Linux-targeted > viruses (of which there aren't very many)? > Thinking over the similar lines, another query popped up in my mind - Is cygwin more vulnerable to Windows based Virus or Linux based Virus ? Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru -- 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
