![]() It can be a lot of fun to use someone else's computer and it boots straight to your desktop "on" your own drive. Puppy Linux works like this, and is great in my opinion for stealth and system recovery/forensics. That said, you are still booting that drive the same way you boot any hard drive, even though it's just in a USB slot, so APT on the BIOS level can still affect or possibly infect you.Īnything that you do while using the USB drive should be set up to be saved back to your USB flash drive, and most of the I/O needed by the OS can happen solely in memory so it disappears after a full shut down. ![]() Windows virus won't work on your Linux OS (most always). If you are using a Linux bootable on a system running only Windows, then you are in good shape as far as virus hopping. That said, if the question is:ĭoes using a bootable live Linux USB have security benefits that using a standard OS does not? We don't know how current "govware" works they keep it secret for a reason.
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