What about the Z: drive, which is/was mapped to / ? --- James Hawkins <truiken@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > On 11/8/05, peter kostov <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, I have a question: > > do I have to worry if I run with wine an executable that may contain a > > virus (I am running linux as a normal user, not root)? > > > > It shouldn't be a problem. Your .wine/drive_c *may* be infected, but > even if that happens you can just rm -r .wine. I say *may* because > most viruses rely on very specific internal windows behavior or bugs > to latch onto the system, and it's possible we don't replicate > whatever behavior the virus is expecting. I think it's fun to try > running .exe's I know are viruses in wine, just to see if it will > work. The only think that might be of concern is if H: is mapped to > your home directory, which I think it is by default now. I'm not sure > if the virus would be able to get out to your home folder and corrupt > those files or not. One thing is certain, just to be safe, don't run > as root like you said. Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Tired of a proprietary Windows on your computer ? Use free ReactOS instead ( http://www.reactos.org ) _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
