Is it safe to use my mother's windows machine to flash a 4g dongle if I don't trust her security?
by linuxuser371038 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MPX0)
I tried flashing the, windows only, firmware with the flashing program in a hirensbootcd vm on my own linux machine but it comes up with errors while trying to flash.
To remove the extra layer of complexity with the vm I am thinking to try using my mum's machine however she is very lazy about security. Is it risky?
I don't want to compromise my machine just to flash this device.
The device is a 4g dongle which does have some storage on it I think, not sure, not had a chance to examine as it is not working as I want it yet. I don't think it has any mass storage out the box, just the option to add a flash storage mini sd card.
There is some limited storage on the base device though as it stores some files to load drivers automatically in lieu of a driver disk. This is the part I want to flash though. So would any malware be able to get on their likely or not?
To remove the extra layer of complexity with the vm I am thinking to try using my mum's machine however she is very lazy about security. Is it risky?
I don't want to compromise my machine just to flash this device.
The device is a 4g dongle which does have some storage on it I think, not sure, not had a chance to examine as it is not working as I want it yet. I don't think it has any mass storage out the box, just the option to add a flash storage mini sd card.
There is some limited storage on the base device though as it stores some files to load drivers automatically in lieu of a driver disk. This is the part I want to flash though. So would any malware be able to get on their likely or not?