[Wine] Wine and security, keeping viruses contained

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On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:03 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> [quote="JI un-checked the check boxes, but why can Windows still place a link to a Windows program on my Linux desktop?[/quote]
>  Windows can't - Wine can. I've already told you. Besides Wine can't do nothing if application makes system calls directly bypassing Wine.
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>  The false sense of security is worse then no security.
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It runs with your user rights, you'd need something like Apparmor or
SELinux to accomplish that.