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What are the risks of installing Vanguard on a PC with dual boot? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by loo@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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tl;dr: Security concerns for my Linux partition, when running Vanguard on Windows?

Now that Vanguard is out, I can't play LoL on Linux anymore. I'm running a dual boot setup with windows and I'm using it only for stuff I can't get to work on Linux, so there is no personal data on there.

  • Are there any security risks for my Linux partition, if Vanguard is installed and running on my Linux partition?
  • Could Vanguard potentially access my ext4 Linux file system via Windows?
  • If my NAS is mounted on Windows, could that also be a security concern?

I'm grateful for any kind of feedback, since I'm not very informed in terms of rootkits and kernels!

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[-] loo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you very much! Long-term I will encrypt my drive and since I don't have off-site backups for my NAS, I will just unmount it on Windows.

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