Hi, the Wine program seems great. I run Eudora in WinXP, and this program will enable me to run Eudora in Fedora 3 and use the same mailboxes via Captive-NTFS - and so I will always have my email up-to-date.
I have one big concern: viruses. Is it possible for me to get infected with a virus using Wine? If I got infected, how well could the virus infect my system? Meaning, I plan to install Captive-NTFS , so if I have a virus, could it write to relevent Windows files etc. on my mounted NTFS partition? If I get a virus, how easy would it be to clean it - could I just run like AVG or something and that would take care of it?
(I'm still getting used to Linux!)
Thanks a ton!!
It really depends - if the virus uses a kernel issue changes are small it'll work on Wine (as the change of having exactly the same mistake in both windows kernel code and wine code is, well, small ;)) - but if it's using bugs of the program being run than it might work just the same as on a real windows environment.
Using a fake windows directory is encouraged as Wine might otherwise have troubled with windows registeries being filled with unknown trash; also by using one or multiple fake windows directories, you can avoid loosing any real information caused by virus activity - then, if you got infected, you'd just remove the infected directories and grab the fresh copy
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