Wine & viruses

[Paul Chitescu]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:33:01 Ben Klein wrote:
> 2009/2/18 IneedAname <wineappdb at googlemail.com>:
> > Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount?
>
> This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to
> run apps on noexec filesystems.

It is usual to mount FAT filesystems noexec (since there are no POSIX 
executables on them anyway). That would prevent Wine running any EXE files 
off them. What is the user supposed to do, copy the files somewhere else?

It is already bad enough if users (or their "helpful" distro) delete the Z: 
drive and they can't execute files from outside drive_c. BTW, this is 
enough "protection" against removable media too.