Wine & viruses

[Ben Klein]

2009/2/19 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>
> This already doesn't work, even though Wine doesn't account for it.
> Wine can't map sections of an exe file with executable permissions
> if it's on a noexec filesystem. It crashes trying to branch to the
> entry point.

Worked for me. vfat filesystem mounted with noexec flag, kernel
2.6.28. I tested it before commenting.