openSUSE Forums: ZeroFill, a good idea?

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ZeroFill, a good idea? Jan 22nd 2013, 08:09 Hello everyone. On Windows I used to do a ZeroFill in order to make sure no virus would get re-activated once I "formated" with Windows. I'm interested to know if I download a virus with openSUSE (specially via WIne) and somehow it deletes my home folder, it would be a good idea to do a ZeroFill, because some viruses can re-activate themselves after a normal fomatting since normal formatting doesn't really erase any data. The scenario would be: Wine installed Downloaded a Steam game (I don't play nor run pirated software) Joins a server A server file is infected (happened on Windows, since the server admins have full folder-access depending on the game) The virus gets access to my home folder Then, after "formatting" with suse DVD and re-installing Wine (thinking I'm safe now that my system is "formated") the virus get back on. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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