LXer: Defending against malicious CDs and USB flash drives

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07-06-2011, 11:00 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,355 Rep:	LXer: Defending against malicious CDs and USB flash drives Published at LXer: In a follow-up to the Bloomberg story, Lifehacker suggested opening suspect hardware in a virtual machine. There are better, simpler options. The safest approach is to use Linux, as so little malware targets it.Windows users are best served with a copy of Linux on a USB flash drive. Just yesterday I ran Mint version 10 off a USB flash drive to delete files in the Windows recycle bin, files that Windows itself would not display, but were there nonetheless. Read More...

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