Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote:
Is it vulnerable only when actually running a windows program, or vulnerable by the very fact of being there?Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up your user stuff if a virus gets executed.
Anne
It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target Wine, I don't see that happening. The problem is that when you are running Windows programs, you can also run things like VB scripts. But the damage is limmited to your user, and not the entire system, as it would be under Windows. One way to limit things would be to have a different user that you log in as to run Wine. If your normal user is a member of the Wine user's group, and you have a group writable directory, sharing data between the two is easy. You can access this as your normal user, but the Wine user can not access anything in your normal user's directory.
Mikkel
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