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

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:15:02 CST 2005


On 11/10/05, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Files are still at risk since the virus has _read_ access on them.
> As an example viruses replicate by reading mail adresses into files.
>

The only way you could store personal information outside of your home
directory is by running as root, which is always a bad idea.

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James Hawkins



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