Re: do I have to worry if executing an exe that may contain a virus under Wine?

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Le mercredi 09 novembre 2005 à 09:58 -0800, Hiji a écrit :
> --- James Hawkins <truiken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/9/05, Hiji <hijinio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I run Wine as a normal user, and I have no problem
> > > writing to Z: from within an application running
> > via
> > > Wine.
> > >
> > 
> > You either have the permissions set up differently
> > (seems unsecurely),
> > or you're writing to your own files.  Wine, as a
> > user-level program,
> > can't give extra permissions and so it's not
> > possible to write to
> > read-only files.  Try opening up notepad and editing
> > and saving
> > z:\etc\vimrc.  Access denied.
> 
> Oh, is that what you mean?  Wine is at no risk for
> viruses, but theoretically, if a virus did work,
> wouldn't my own files still be at risk?  Pictures,
> documents, etc. are irreplaceable (if not backed up),
> but an OS can still be reinstalled.

If you are worried you can have your own wine user that you'll use for
running wine.

-- 
Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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