On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:36:54PM +0000, 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.
However, the "Z:" drive in Wine is just a suggested feature; it's quite possible to run Wine without it. Something like Knoppix will automount all drives, but a sane, secure distribution generally requires manual intervention (as root) to even access non-Linux partitions.