Partitions and security risks

One partition with Win 98 and other Win 2000

[Visit Thailand]

I have one laptop with Win 98 and it has a partition on the same c drive with Win 2000 Beta (testing) on it.

All my work is done on Windows 98 and 2000 was only installed to test it when it was just being talked about.

My question is - is there any security risk to having Windows 2000 on the same drive as Windows 98. I have never updated Windows 2000 nor does it have any Antivirus or Internet Security systems on it. However I never connect to the net using Win 2000.

Windoes 98 does have security and NAV etc installed and Win 98 is what I use to connect.

However recently have been seeing some strange behaviour and while NAV says the drive is clean as does regcleaner, AdAware and SpyBot I am still concerned. Is it possible for a virus to jump partitions like that and would there be any problems with installing NIS 2002 on the Windows 2000 part even though Win 98 has NIS 2003 installed.

Can I share a programme such as NIS 2003 over a partition?

[Yidaki]

>Partitions and security risks
>One partition with Win 98 and other Win 2000

Yes, running Windows [apple.com] is a security risk - no matter what partition it's on.

sorry, couldn't resist. :)