2009/2/24 kareeser <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Windows malware cannot affect the Linux filesystem, just as most viruses can't do much damage to a Linux filesystem. > It has to do with the limited permissions given. Therefore, if you get malware from using iexplore.exe, it will only affect files in your virtual WINE C drive. Ah, stuff running under Wine runs as you. So it can change any file you can. Which means your entire home directory, i.e. anything you actually care about. (For added points: a sufficiently obnoxious piece of malware could easily put itself in a quiet corner of your home folder, set itself to restart as a cron or at job, listen to the net on a high port as you, send email on port 25 as you ... that's just obvious stuff off the top of my head.) - d.
