Another virus-in-wine story

[Nicholas LaRoche]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> This is about the fifth article of this sort, so it's not really news
> anymore, but it's still fun to read about.
> 
> TFA is clueless about how to clean up a wine
> installation (he thought uninstalling wine would do it),
> buts lots of readers supply the missing clue.
> 
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/24/1759213/Now-Linux-Can-Get-Viruses-Via-Wine
> 
> 
> 

A few months ago there was a topic in wine-devel on the same subject. A 
toggle switch for portions of the wine API (i.e. networking), 
WINEPREFIX, and SELinux seems to make this a non-issue.

The default wine SELinux configuration for Fedora 11 denies quite a bit 
of behavior. (Try compiling and using HEAD without setting the security 
context or entering permissive mode and you'll see what I mean).

Does this even need to be handled at the wine level to prevent 
system-wide corruption? It seems like other security technologies 
already provide this protection.

-Nick