On 11/10/05, James Hawkins <truiken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/10/05, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Files are still at risk since the virus has _read_ access on them. > > As an example viruses replicate by reading mail adresses into files. > > > > The only way you could store personal information outside of your home > directory is by running as root, which is always a bad idea. > > -- > James Hawkins Right. But, for instance, if he executed some exe file that had a virus in it, and the virus found some data file to infect, then the virus is there. It may not matter on his system, but should he send that file on to someone else then he would be transmitting a virus to others. Correct? - Mark _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
