[Wine] viruses

[Rainer Krug]

oiaohm <wineforum-user <at> winehq.org> writes:

> 
> Damage is directly linked to level of stupidity.
> 
> Running as a normal user just what you have means to alter as a normal user at
risk in most cases.  
> 
> Ok this is not the wisest person.   Wisest person would have wine inside a
selinux sandbox so damage is only
> what is inside the sandbox.

Could you post a link, where the creation of an selinux sandbox is explained?
Would be quite usefull.

> 
> autorun.inf is not run by wine or linux normally so those viruses don't work.
> 
> Now the pure stupid run wine a root so can lose the complete system.   There
is no reason to run wine as root under
> Linux capabilities can grant wine all the network permissions it need without
expanding the disk access issue.
> 
> clamav scan over where wine is kinda a wise move.  wineserver -k will shutdown
everything that is running in
> wine.  So blocking memory hiding viruses from windows.
> 
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