If boot drive is not C: is it safer?

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Jack S.

Someone mentioned to me that they thought it might be preferable have your
boot drive not labeled C: since viruses always look to C: to attack.
Opinions?
 
I doubt it would do any good.
Get good antivirus software and keep it updated - keep your OS and apps
patched to the gills - and use a good firewall.
 
My "opinion" is there are 3 components to virus protection

1. Install a hardware firewall
2. Install Anti-virus software
3. Use common sense and do not open or launch file attachments or messages you do not recognize in email or internet websites.

Pete Choppin, MCP
http://www.websolutionpro.com

----- Jack S. wrote: -----

Someone mentioned to me that they thought it might be preferable have your
boot drive not labeled C: since viruses always look to C: to attack.
Opinions?
 
The label is not usually what I believe that people are talking about. I
believe that may people suggest that you partition your harddrive so that
only the programs are on C: and the data is on D: or other drives. This way
you do not need to have any shares on C: that may mistakenly be
misconfigured to allow users access to your system.
 
Jack S. said:
Someone mentioned to me that they thought it might be preferable have your
boot drive not labeled C: since viruses always look to C: to attack.
Opinions?
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Utter nonsense. Viruses won't be fooled because the drive letter is
somrthing other than C. It's easy for any program to find out what drive
and partition are used for booting and where the operating system lives.
Windows itself has to keep track of this stuff and with share the
information with any program that knows how to ask.
 
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