[Bug 11421] Wine makes possible for windows virus to work?

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11421


Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net>  2008-01-31 15:41:23 ---
There is nothing around that prevents windows viruses from working on wine. We
try to be like windows in every regard. In a few ways we are more safe as
windows viruses can't gain root permissions and perform more nasty things.

Second if you are worried you can remove the z: link, so that viruses won't see
all of the system and only the wine c: drive.

You can run anti-spyware tools or even a virus scanner on wine (some work).
Sorry but there is nothing which we can do about. Further some people are
planning to add a way to edit run/runonce settings without having to resort to
regedit.


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