[Wine] do I have to worry if executing an exe that may contain a
virus under Wine?
Hiji
hijinio at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 9 11:58:59 CST 2005
--- James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/9/05, Hiji <hijinio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I run Wine as a normal user, and I have no problem
> > writing to Z: from within an application running
> via
> > Wine.
> >
>
> You either have the permissions set up differently
> (seems unsecurely),
> or you're writing to your own files. Wine, as a
> user-level program,
> can't give extra permissions and so it's not
> possible to write to
> read-only files. Try opening up notepad and editing
> and saving
> z:\etc\vimrc. Access denied.
Oh, is that what you mean? Wine is at no risk for
viruses, but theoretically, if a virus did work,
wouldn't my own files still be at risk? Pictures,
documents, etc. are irreplaceable (if not backed up),
but an OS can still be reinstalled.
Hiji
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