Hello there,

I have a question. If I’m doing windows linux dual boot, is there any possibiliy that windows can spy my data on linux? Or: if i got ransomwared on windows, is my linux part of my pc safe or not?

How can I prevent all above?

Thx

  • rapchee@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    if we’re being paranoid, unplug or swap out the linux disks while running windows
    i wouldn’t bother though, windows itself doesn’t mount non-ntfs partitions (again, unless we’re being paranoid and assume that they do, since it is relatively easily done, it’s open source, technically they could be able to do it)
    also people in this thread are not doing dual booting right, i have multiple pcs with windows and various linuxes, the latest machine has two distros as well, and i never had an issue, in many years (the oldest is an athlon x2 with windows 7 and mint 22.1)
    i think the key to my success is that i install them on separate drives, so windows has its own boot sector and everything, and then the linux bootloaders find it and do their own thing