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North Dakota | I have run Linux mint as my primary OS for a few years now. As far as I know there are few “viruses” written that are active in Linux. Linux is such a small portion of the OS market that no one is taking the time to write one. Linux is a user supported system and is much faster to react to security leaks. A couple of exceptions do exist, one is smb/cifs 1.0 for network attached storage. But 2.0 or later is safe. Another is if you download something or open an attachment in an email it could infect a windows computer over the network.
As far as a flash drive it will operate exactly the same as a hard drive, it reads and writes data to the drive. A live dvd version is not able to write data to the dvd and will be a clean run with every boot. The only problem is you are not able to save any changes or retain browser history. | |
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is Ubuntu running from a CD or Flash safe?
