On 11/30/10 7:50 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 22:31:46 Hiisi wrote: >> Well, if I have wine installed (and my system is opened for windoze >> viruses) what should I use to open that flash.exe file? Firefox and >> flash-player for windoze? > Just open a terminal, type > > wine flash.exe > > and see what happens. :-) If it is a standalone program it should just run. > > Btw, I don't think your system is open for Windows viruses just by installing > wine. Typically wine has trouble running even legitimate programs made for > Windows (since it still doesn't translate *all* features of Windows OS into > Linux environment), let alone viruses which deliberately have "dirty" code and > use quirks, bugs and holes of the Windows OS. Typically wine cannot emulate > those bugs and holes so effectively as the original Windows :-) , so AFAIK > viruses would typically fail to run under wine. Of course, YMMV. Also, you > would need to be stupid enough to type "wine my-favorite-virus.exe" in the > terminal to actually run the thing, I doubt it would run as automatically as > in Windows... ;-) Then again, I might be wrong, I'm no expert on wine, just an > occasional user. Google Wine Virus and see what you get back. Remember, Wine is designed to be run as a normal user and what you can reach, it can too. However, work is ongoing to continuously improve Wine. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
