Drive mapping of Z:

Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 07:49:57 CDT 2006


Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Disabling the Z:\ drive won't help security

in THEORY...

> because windows applications can still do Linux syscalls
> (int 0x80) which they can use do do anything native
> apps do, like accessing files outside wine drive mappings.

But in PRACTICE, it would help a lot to hinder total system
destruction once viruses start running correctly on Wine.

(Especially for users like me, who always runs Wine as the root user ;-).)



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