On 05/01/2016 10:08 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
On 16/05/01 18:33, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 05/01/2016 04:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 23/04/16 11:42, jd1008 wrote:
>>>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/
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>>> Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit
>> This may be to do with the new feature Microsoft is implementing in
>> Windows 10. The ability to invoke a Bash Shell from the start menu
>> inside which you can run Ubuntu. This is the method they have
>> developed with their partners Canonical to enable Linux to be run
>> natively inside Windows.
Iirc they started the hiring because they need them for some
Azure-stuff. For Azure they have their own distro for SDN and I guess
they want to start to use Linux for more stuff in their backend.
> Well, this pretty much opens up linux to viruses, since windows is so
> easily
> infected - and thus the windows viruses will be able to infect
> windows' guest
> as well.
> Already people (friends) with windows 10 are coming to me and saying
> their
> laptops have frozen.
How does that open up Linux to more viruses? You mean that crackers will
suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in Linux-software to break into
windows-boxes because a tiny amount of users will install this (after
all only command line software runs with the Linux-integration)?You mean
that crackers will suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in
Linux-software to break into windows-boxes because a tiny amount of
users will install this (after all only command line software runs with
the Linux-integration)?
Niels
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If linux is the guest on windows, there is no guarantee
that the virus will not be able to infect the machine emulator.
and whatever is running on top of emulator.