[Wine] Wine and security, keeping viruses contained

[Austin English]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:14 PM, roderick <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I think the original issue is that the user is confusing the regular .desktop file with a windows shortcut - these are two completely different things.
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>  Wine with use native linux tools to generate a desktop file, which looks similar to the windows sortcut, but it is most certainly not the windows shortcut.
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>  This should not be a concern, as the generated desktop file is just a regular .desktop used by your linux system and has an exec line with wine and the windows program - that's all. It's not windows accessing your desktop :)
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>  Cheers.
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True, but wine apps can still access outside files, within the
permissions of the user account it is run as.