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

[James E. LaBarre]

James Hawkins wrote:
> 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.


Not necessarily.  I have a data partition formatted as FAT32 to be 
shared between Linux and Windows 2000.  This partition is mounted under 
a "windisk" group which has R/W permissions (umask 0007).  I can then 
work with my OOo documents whether booted to Win or Linux, and I also 
have Thunderbird under each pointing to the same mail files.