Is it safe to use my mother's windows machine to flash a 4g dongle if I don't trust her security?
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? |
If she will give you access to the computer to flash a USB drive, why not ask her whether you can check her security settings, then check to see whether she has a firewall enabled and is running an anti-virus? You can certainly assure her that you will not change anything without asking her permission.
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Rufus can make a live windows usb if you can boot it on her computer. I used to make WinPE CD's and may still have a few.
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Well, usually not in windows. I have one usb made and use the extra space for ext4 area.
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