[Wine] Re: Wine Question - Virus/Diable temporarily

dimesio wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sat Sep 19 16:52:52 CDT 2009


balani123 wrote:
> Ya this is like a simple question about wine.. is that i got 2 operating system's so like i am wondering since .exe files can be opened so is my XP venerable to virus attacks?? i do mean even for the slightest bit .... "more" ??? if yaa.... whats the way to disable wine.... or is it auto disabled ?? :(........ but .... if an  .exe runs (virus) then it will start wine and execute it.


Apps running in Wine can do anything the user can do, so if you have access to your XP partition as a normal user, so will any malware running in Wine.  http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3cb8f054b33a63be30f98a1b6225d74e305a0459







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