--- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:29:08 -0600, Brad DeMorrow
wrote:
Many also seem to be worried that a virus under
wine could do damage to
their other partition with windows installed. I
tell them that without
an entry in Wine's configuration for that virtual
drive - any pure
windows application wouldn't even know that such
a drive existed.
That's not quite right, some viruses just do a
recursive search for all PE
EXE/DLL files. They will find a real Windows drive
eventually if it's
mounted r/w as drive z: makes the whole system
available.
Yes but that's an important point. As you are not running as root, you may not have write access to the files in that Windows partition. And thus it would be safe.
Of course this depends on how your system is configured but I know this is how mine is configured and I don't think it is an unusual setup (but I don't have hard statistics to back it up so I may be wrong).
Here's something to add into the mix...
I'm not quite sure how other Linux distros work, but Sun's JDS mounts any Windows partitions under /windows/[drive letter] . IIRC, Wine makes drive Z the root. So, a virus theoretically could go through each drive, eventually hit Z drive, and then from there, get to the Windows partitions -- that is, if the partitions are Fat32, it can do damage.
Hiji
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