[Wine] do I have to worry if executing an exe that may contain a virus under Wine?

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Files are still at risk since the virus has _read_ access on them.
As an example viruses replicate by reading mail adresses into files.

--- James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On 11/9/05, Hiji <hijinio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, is that what you mean?  Wine is at no risk for
> > viruses, but theoretically, if a virus did work,
> > wouldn't my own files still be at risk?  Pictures,
> > documents, etc. are irreplaceable (if not backed up),
> > but an OS can still be reinstalled.
> >
> 
> I wouldn't say wine is at no risk, but I think the risk is small.  If
> a virus did work, then it's possible your personal files are at risk,
> but even then, that's if the virus just destroys the files it
> encounters, and most viruses don't do that.
> 
> --
> James Hawkins
> 


Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
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