Malware on Wine review

[Gert van den Berg]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/26 King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com>:
>> Also, NTFS DOES have a concept of execute bits, but Windows itself does not
>> use them. An implementation of this is the "trusted" app scheme in the
>> properties in Windows Vista and above (I don't remember if XPSP2 had it
>> also). Although this scheme is mostly broken, it was intended to stop the
>> execution of apps just downloaded from the internet from a non-trusted
>> source.
>
> NTFS has the concept of metadata. Windows does not use it as an
> equivalent for +x bit though. And even if it did, it wouldn't be a big
> help for Wine, because Wine doesn't like NTFS :)
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776297(VS.85).aspx

(And I mentioned it in my blog post mentioned earlier)

Gert