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

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Good catch, James.
I didnt even think about this one.
--- "James E. LaBarre" <jamesl at bestweb.net> a écrit :

> 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.
> 

Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Tired of a proprietary Windows on your computer ?
Use free ReactOS instead ( http://www.reactos.org )