VP/ix: A Safe testing ground for PD/Shareware?

[Doug Lee]

The subject and summary almost say it all.  Since I can create a C drive at
will and move DOS files onto it, is this a safe approach to testing software
for viruses?  At first glance, it would appear that any damage done would
only "damage" my C drive, which is just another Unix file under VP/ix.
To date, I haven't tried this approach, not knowing if there are loopholes
in VP/ix which might permit more obnoxious activity to take place.
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Doug Lee  (dlee at athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!dlee)