"don" 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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On 13 Dec 2007 12:14:50 -0600, Todd H. wrote:
>"don" 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.

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.

AZ Nomad writes:

> On 13 Dec 2007 12:14:50 -0600, Todd H. wrote:
> >"don" 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.
>
> 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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