On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Hiji wrote: [...]
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.
It seems you're just repeating what Mike Hearn said and ignoring what he and I said about non-root users not necessarily having write access to the Windows partition. It's a bit irritating because that last part is exactly what I was trying to pointing out. Apparently I failed :-(
Now you may have been confused by the fat32 thing. But under Linux if you mount a fat32 partition with all defaults then only root can write to it. If you want other users to have write to it, then you have to use the appropriate mount options to set the umask, user and group just right.
Do man mount and look for uid, gid and umask in the 'Mount options for fat' section.