--- Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ½Bî¶ §ºµth£Ñ½ wrote: > > 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 You're just in luck. Somebody on the wine-devel alias just posted this article! :) http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss Hiji __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
