create a boot-able disk from an iso file

Joep L. Blom jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Tue Jan 11 22:45:02 UTC 2011


On 11/01/11 23:29, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Joep L. Blom<jlblom at neuroweave.nl>  wrote:
>> On 11/01/11 22:33, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>>
>>> If you're running Windows, then yes, of course.  The virus doesn't
>>> (necessarily) know or care what file system is underneath the files it
>>> modifies.  If you're running in Windows and a virus goes after a file,
>>> it will be modified (as long as the permissions so allow).  If it
>>> happens to be a Linux executable, then chances are that the changes
>>> will corrupt the file and it won't run (on Linux), but there are
>>> UNIX/Linux viruses out there, too,  They're just considerably rarer
>>> than Win viruses (millions).
>>>
>> ZenWiz,
>> Please, show me one!
>
> I presume from your prior postings that you have heard of Google.
> Last time I looked there were a whopping 42 viruses for UNIX/Linux
> machines, but feel free to look and prove me wrong.  :-)
>
well, likewise.
Read this blog> 
http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2010/03/understanding-viruses-in-linux.html

Joep







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