Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/19 Vincent Povirk : >> 2009/2/18 IneedAname : >>> Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? >> >> This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to >> run apps on noexec filesystems. > > This already doesn't work, even though Wine doesn't account for it. > Wine c

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Vincent Povirk wrote: >> 2009/2/18 IneedAname : >>> Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? >> >> This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to >> run apps on noexec filesystems. > > This already doesn't work, even though Wine doe

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Vincent Povirk
> Wine can't mount sections of an exe file with executable permissions > if it's on a noexec filesystem. Err, sorry, meant to say "map", not "mount".

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Vincent Povirk
> 2009/2/18 IneedAname : >> Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? > > This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to > run apps on noexec filesystems. This already doesn't work, even though Wine doesn't account for it. Wine can't mount sections of an exe file wi

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/2/18 Martin Hinner : > > Hi, > > > > I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed > > earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to > > search google, found several discussions, but no real result: > > It

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/18 Marcus Meissner : > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:33:01PM +1100, Ben Klein wrote: >> 2009/2/18 IneedAname : >> > Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? >> >> This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to >> run apps on noexec filesystems. > > Likely will b

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Chitescu
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:33:01 Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/2/18 IneedAname : > > Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? > > This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to > run apps on noexec filesystems. It is usual to mount FAT filesystems noexec (since the

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:33:01PM +1100, Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/2/18 IneedAname : > > Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? > > This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to > run apps on noexec filesystems. Likely will break installing all DVD/CD Software ;

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/18 IneedAname : > Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems.

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-18 Thread IneedAname
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:11:20 +0100 Martin Hinner wrote: > The problem is that some (almost all?) distributions simply execute > .exe file when you click on it. I was amazed when testing JTAGTest on > Linux! This is in my opinion quite big issue as ordinary users do not > have problem clicking o

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Kai Blin
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 17:11:20 Martin Hinner wrote: > Hi, > > I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed > earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to > search google, found several discussions, but no real result: > > http://www.linux.com/feature/

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/18 Martin Hinner : > Hi, > > I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed > earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to > search google, found several discussions, but no real result: It won't be very hot. > http://www.linux.com/feature/42031 > htt

Re: Wine & viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Martin Hinner wrote: > Hi, > > I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed > earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to > search google, found several discussions, but no real result: > > http://www.linux.com/feature/42031 >

Wine & viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Hinner
Hi, I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to search google, found several discussions, but no real result: http://www.linux.com/feature/42031 http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2116150/linux-experts-wine-vir